About Mullingar St Patrick's Day

When the St Patrick's Day Parade takes place in 2025 the participants in the Parade will be following in the footsteps of the great man himself. Tradition says that Patrick traveled across the Midlands from  Tara to the Hill of Uisneach in 433 at the start of his missionary work in Ireland.

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His journey brought him along a roadway  which followed the route of the modern N52 road and crossed the River Brosna where Mullingar is now. The road ran along what are now the main streets of Mullingar-Pearse Street,Oliver Plunkett Street,Dominick Street and Patrick Street. before heading southwest towards the historic Hill of Uisneach-the sacred centre of Ancient Ireland

When the St Patrick's Day Parade takes place in 2023 the participants in the Parade will be following in the footsteps of the great man himself.  Tradition says that Patrick travelled across the Midlands from  Tara to the Hill of Uisneach in 433 at the start of his missionary work in Ireland.

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