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Mosney
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Meath |
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
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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]
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