Westmeath history

For Heritage Week 2024 Moate Library hosted an exhibition on local business Snowcream and its history in Moate, compiled by Kathleen Cleary. The Beginning In the mid-1950s, Micheál Malone local farmer and his friend Pat Clavin from Streamstown recognised that the day of untreated milk being sold directly to consumers was coming to an end […]

To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Laurence Ginnell we are sharing part of the Laurence Ginnell Commemorative Committee exhibition from 2016. Find out more about Laurence Ginnell by reading one of our posts below, or search our catalogue for a book to borrow from your local library