Report Paul Murphy
The annual journal of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society is ready for publication and will be launched by Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Patron) in the Ardboyne Hotel on Wednesday 25 th March. This will be followed by a lecture on the subject “Meath – The Irish Revolution – 1912-23” by the renowned scholar Dr Ciaran Wallace, TCD. Sean Boylan will contribute to this talk.
The contents of the journal provide a wide range of topics and include an article on Tom Delaney, an archaeologist and his songs remembered by Peter Connell; The Black Church of Oldtown, a lost Hospitaller chapel in Co Meath by Jonathan Battye; Transformative Perspectives via Transi Tombs – How the late medieval Cadaverous Coffin Signifies a Societal shift in Death Perception by Naomi Oziel; Navigating the origins of the Maiden Tower, Mornington, Co Meath by Killian Downing; The Quakers in Oldcastle c1660 to c1800 by Una Palcic; The Hussey Barons of Galtrim by Caren Mulcahy; Governing Poverty.
The Navan Union Board of Guardians 1839-1865. An archival overview by Clare Ryan; Westmeath News Further Gleanings from The Standard and River Plate News, Buenos Aires 1877 1878 an 1880 by Edward Walsh; The Story of a Victorian Miniature Railway in Ireland: Rev John Evans Preston’s Julianstown Rectory Railway from 1887 to 1927 by David Dingemans: and many more reports.
