Mosney () is a
townland
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and village in the
civil parish
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of Moorechurch in
County Meath
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,
Ireland
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, from
Dublin
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. It was best known as the site of a
Butlin's holiday camp during the second half of the 20th century and as the site for the national finals of the
Community Games
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. By the early 21st century, the holiday camp had been converted into an accommodation centre for
asylum
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...
-seekers. The village was served by
Mosney railway station until 2000.
Early in the 19th century, Mosney was a manor house and part of the estate of the Peppers of Ballygarth Castle.
By the mid-20th century, the house was the home of the farm steward of Mosney and was lived in by Johnny Oram whose father had been the previous farm steward.
References
{{Towns and villages in County Meath
Towns and villages in County Meath
Townlands of County Meath