Mullingar Tidy Towns Sub Committee Photo includes Left to right, Willie Collentine Jnr, Jason McKevitt (Historian), Anita Kennedy, Cllr Bill Collentine, Tomas Nally, Eamon McGowan and Ger O'Connor.

Mullingar's past has positive future thanks to heritage app

Brian O'Loughlin

Published: Fri 5 Apr 2019, 11:11 AM

Last updated: Fri 5 Apr 2019, 11:20 AM

Cllr Bill Collentine, chairman of Mullingar Tidy Towns, has announced that funding has now been officially sanctioned for a Mullingar Town Heritage Trail online App.

The funding is from the Westmeath Local Community Development Committee, under the Rural Development Leader Programme 2014-2020.

The Mullingar Heritage Trail App when launched will be available to download to PCs as well as Smartphones, allowing users to walk and admire the history and heritage of the town at their leisure.

The Heritage Trail app will include tales behind many of the landmarks, such as Columb Barracks, Market Square, the Cathedral of Christ the King and Mullingar Railway Station.

It will also include stories of musical heritage with references to the town’s most notable sons, Joe Dolan and Niall Horan, as well of sporting, military and transport heritage.

The Mullingar Tidy Towns Committee who are behind this venture, were also behind the construction of the Mullingar 1916 Centenary Memorial at the Green Bridge in the town.

This committee are Cllr Bill Collentine (chairman), Jason McKevitt (historian), Eamonn McGowan, Tomas Nally, Ger O’Connor and Willie Collentine Jnr.