Tracing your Westmeath Ancestors

Gretta Connell

  • ISBN13: 978-1-907990-03-8
  • 160 pages
  • illustrated (b/w)
  • 145 x 227  mm
  • softcover
  • Price: €0.00 · Available in April

AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2012.   This title is in preparation.  To be notified when it is available,  email us at books@flyleaf.ie with the subject line 'Westmeath'


Westmeath,  often referred to as the ‘Lake County’,  is a prosperous midland county whose main towns are Athlone and Mullingar.   The major Gaelic families in the county  include O’Flanagan, MacAuley, MacGeoghegan, ,Brennan, O’Coffey, O’Mulleady, O’FInlan, O’Growney, O’Melaghlin and O’Daly.   Later Norman arrivals included DeLacy, Plunkett, Nugent, Tuite, Petit, Delamar,  and Dalton,  and later still English adventurer families  to arrive included Ledwich,  Dardis and Gaynor.  The lives and activities of these various peoples of Westmeath have generated a huge variety of records, many of which can be useful to the family historian.  This book explains what records exist and how to use them to best advantage.