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Oldcastle, County Meath. Ireland

Oldcastle is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is located in the northwest of the county near the border with Cavan, approximately 13 miles from Kells. The R154 and R195 regional roads cross in the town's market square. The town of Oldcastle was the 18th-century creation of the Naper family, who received parts of the Plunkett estate following the Cromwellian wars. Due in part to the continuation of a Gaelic way of life, the area suffered badly during the Great Famine (1845-‘9) in comparison with richer, more arable areas in the southern part of Meath. The poorest inhabitants were obliterated by starvation and emigration. Nonetheless, land patterns still visible today reveal a strong attachment to pastoral farming of ‘Gaelic Culture'. Oldcastle had a Prisoner of War Camp from 1914 – 1918, it was the only permanent civilian POW camp in Ireland, detaining so-called ‘enemy aliens’.