a post, fair, and borough town of Ireland, in the county of Westmeath and province of Leinster, 44 miles from Dublin. It formerly returned two members to parliament; patronage in the Lambert family. It is seated on the river Brosna, over which there is a bridge. There was here a monastery founded in 1200, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and inhabited by monks from the Cisterian abbey of Melefont. The fairs are two.