Mosney

Mosney Maigh Muirí
—  Village  —
Mosney Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°39′29″N 6°14′46″W / 53.658°N 6.246°W / 53.658; -6.246Coordinates: 53°39′29″N 6°14′46″W / 53.658°N 6.246°W / 53.658; -6.246
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Meath
Elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Time zone	WET (UTC+0)
- Summer (DST)	IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Irish Grid Reference

This article is about the village. For the Holiday Camp, see Butlin's Mosney.

Mosney (Irish: Maigh Muirí, meaning "plain of Mairid") is part of the parish of Moorechurch in the east of County Meath, Ireland, it is situated approximately48 km (30 mi) from Dublin. It is probably best-known as the site of a Butlins holiday camp in the second half of the 20th century and as the site for the National Finals of the Community Games. By the early 21st-century, this had been converted into an accommodation centre for asylum-seekers. Until 2000 the village was served by Mosney railway station.

Early in the 19th century Mosney was a manor house and part of part of the estate of the Peppers of Ballygarth castle ^[1] by the mid 20th century the house served as the home of the farm steward of Mosney and was lived in by a man name Johnny Oram whose father had been the previous farm steward.^[2]

References

1. ^ Samuel Lewis (1837), A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/m2.php 
2. ^ jim tuohy, jimtuohy's memories of Mosney, http://www.butlinsmemories.com/mosney/yourmemories/jimtuohy.htm