An Iarmhí, Westmeath, translates as The county is nicknamed the Lake County. The county motto is “west of the middle”.“Noble above Nobility”.

Uisneagh Hill is an impressive hill nearly 600 feet high. It is here that King Tuathal Teachmar erected his palace in the 2nd. century CE. For two hundred years the pagan kings of Ireland ruled from there.

The King of Mide,Máel Sechnaill, drowned Turgesius, the leader of the Vikings in Ireland in 845  in Lough Owel. The island of Turgesius is on Lough Lene.

Westmeath was the north Teffia part of the ancient kingdom of Mide (Meath and Westmeath). With the Anglo-Norman conquest in the 12th century, it became part of the de Lacy earldom of Mide. In 1241 the earldom lost its , and, following a Gaelic resurgence, the western part of the earldom passed out of English government control. Following the 16th-century reconquest of Ireland by…