Local Studies - Key Titles
If you wish to find out about Westmeath, there are a wealth of sources.
Some of the key titles available in our Local Studies Departments are listed below:
Titles dealing the History and Topography of Westmeath......
• A Chorographical Description of the County of Westmeath - Sir Henry Piers (1752)
• The Grand Juries for the County of Westmeath 1727-1853 (1853 )Lyons
• Placenames of Westmeath - Rev. Paul Walsh (1957)
• The Great Delvin - Hannah Fitzsimons (1975)
• Tyrrellspass, Past and Present - O. Egan (1986)
• Athlone history and settlement to 1800 - Harman Murtagh (2000)
• Westmeath as others saw it...AD 900 to the present -Jeremiah Sheehan (1982)
• Irish Midland Studies –edited by Harman Murtagh ( 1980)
• South Westmeath, Farm and Folk - Jeremiah Sheehan (1978)
• Moate, Co. Westmeath - Liam Cox (1981)
• Annals of Westmeath - James Woods (1907)
Ecclesiastical Histories of Westmeath......
• The Diocese of Meath, Ancient and Modern; 3 Vols - Rev. A. Cogan (1870)
• Records relating to the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois - Rev J. Monahan (1886)
• History of the Diocese of Meath ; 2 Vols - John Healy (1908)
• History of the Diocese of Ardagh - James J. MacNamee (1954)
• History of the Diocese of Meath - Rev. John Brady
• History of the Diocese of Meath 1860-1993 ; 3 Vols- edited by O. Curran(1995)
Journals of specific relevance to Westmeath held in the local studies section
• Journal of the Old Athlone Society
• Riocht na Midhe
• Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Journal
• Teathbha
• The Irish Sword
• The Franciscan College Annual.
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