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unusual facts about Westmeath



2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final

Westmeath midfielder Rory O'Connell was banned for 12-weeks for stamping on Offaly's Pascal Kellaghan during Westmeath's Leinster Senior Football Championship win on 23 May 2004.

Ballinahown

Mark Rohan from Ballinahown, a former Under 21 footballer with Westmeath until a car accident, won a gold medal in the 2012 Summer Paralympics on 5 September 2012 in the individual H1 time trial.

Belvedere House

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

Benjamin Chapman

After the conquest, Oliver Cromwell granted Chapman an estate in the county of Westmeath, at Killua (also known as St. Lucy's), a former preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers.

Danny Qualter

He is the son of Séamus Qualter, former manager of both the Westmeath and Roscommon senior hurling teams, and the grandson of P. J. Qualter, a hurling star with Galway in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dunboyne

The Division consisted nine brigades: 1st Brigade (south Meath & north Kildare); 2nd (Navan & Trim); 3rd (Kells, Virginia & Mullagh); 4th, Delvin; 5th (Mullingar & north Westmeath); 6th, Edenderry; 7th (Naas & south Kildare); 8th Fingal; and 9th (Drogheda & south Louth).

Gary Connaughton

He announced his retirement from inter-county football after 10 years on 1 July 2013 after Westmeath's first round qualifier defeat to Fermanagh.

Glasson

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

Hugh Geoghegan

His father James Geoghegan was a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Longford–Westmeath from 1930 to 1937 and Minister for Justice, Attorney General, and judge of the Supreme Court.

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.

Richard Handcock

Richard Handcock, 4th Baron Castlemaine (1826–1892), his son, Irish representative peer, Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath

Rip-Off Republic

In addition, various Fianna Fáil backbenchers were also known to be unhappy with the programme; TD for Westmeath, Donnie Cassidy, threatened to call Hobbs and RTÉ management before a committee to explain their behaviour.

Rochfort family

The Rochfort family came to Ireland in the thirteenth century and acquired substantial lands in counties Kildare, Meath and Westmeath.

Rochfortbridge

The village proper was set out by Robert Rochfort, MP for Westmeath from 1651 to 1727, and grandfather of Robert, 1st Earl of Belvedere.

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.

William Nelson Gardiner

He was educated at Mr. Sisson Darling's academy, and later was, with his father, attached to the suite of Sir James Nugent of Donore, Westmeath.


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