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2 unusual facts about County Westmeath


Christine Longford

They divided their time between Dublin and Pakenham Hall, now Tullynally Castle, in Castlepollard, County Westmeath.

Wilsons Feeds Ltd.

Wilsons Feeds (Ireland) Ltd in Mullingar, County Westmeath was founded in 1966 and by now the group was the second largest compounder in Northern Ireland.


A. W. Lawrence

Arnold Lawrence was born at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford, on 2 May 1900, the youngest of five sons born to Thomas Chapman (who became, in 1914, Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet), an Anglo-Irish nobleman from County Westmeath, and Sarah Junner (1861–1959).

Alienware

On March 25, 2009, Alienware stated that it was considering closing its manufacturing bases in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, and in Miami, Florida.

Denis ApIvor

Born in County Westmeath, Ireland, to Welsh parents, he went to Hereford Cathedral School then studied medicine in London, but had also pursued the study of music from an early age.

Dermot Healy

Born in Finnea, County Westmeath, he lives in County Sligo, and has been described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist".

Dublin–Westport/Galway railway line

The route to Westport and Galway branches away from the main line at Portarlington in County Laois and continues as far as Athlone in County Westmeath, where it splits again, with one branch to Westport and the other to Galway.

Joan Brosnan Walsh

In 1969 she was a cast member of The Caucasian Chalk Circle Strand Players production and they won the Esso Trophy at the all-Ireland drama festival held in Athlone, County Westmeath.

John na Seamar Burke

One of his most notorious acts was the destruction of Athenry in 1572, after which he demolished most of the castles in Clanricarde, afterwards plundering south County Galway, County Roscommon, and crossed the Shannon into County Westmeath, where he buried Mullingar, Meelick and Athlone.

Mary McEvoy

She left this position to return to work on her father's farm in Delvin County Westmeath Ireland.

Net1

Net1 delivers broadband services to homes and businesses using FWA (Fixed Wireless access) from base stations in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal and parts of Armagh, Westmeath, Tyrone, Longford and Fermanagh counties.


see also

Belvedere House

Belvedere House and Gardens, a famous country house in county Westmeath, Ireland

Glasson

Glassan, in County Westmeath, Ireland (also the Village of the Roses)

Sir Henry Piers, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Piers 1st Baronet,(1629–1691) of Tristernagh Abbey County Westmeath, Ireland was an Anglo-Irish landowner, soldier, Member of Parliament, Sheriff of Counties Longford and Westmeath, Sheriff of St Johnstown, and an antiquarian.