Westmeath

Westmeath, an inland county in Leinster, Ireland; is mostly level and gently undulating; the soil in many parts is good, but little cultivated; the only cereal crop raised is oats, but the herbage it yields supplies food for fattening cattle, which is a chief industry.

Population (circa 1900) given as 71,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)