Robert Wilson (dramatist) character in the original versions of William Shakespeare's plays "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Henry IV, Part 2". Objections from descendants of the historical John Oldcastle, a Protestant martyr, appears to have been responsible both for the writing of the corrective "Oldcastle" play and the alteration of Oldcastle to Sir John Falstaff in later versions of the "Henry IV" plays. Also, Wilson has been proposed as a possible author of several anonymous Elizabethan plays, including "Fair Em", "The Pedlar's Prophecy", "A Larum for London", "Look About You", "Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes", and "A Knack to Know a Knave". As
Oldcastle, County Meath train left Oldcastle to go to North Wall, Dublin. The prisoners were then taken by ship to Knockaloe Camp on the Isle of Man. Oldcastle was returned to its previous owners the Oldcastle Board of Guardians and fell into disuse. During the War of Independence in May 1920 Oldcastle Workhouse was set ablaze by the local IRA to stop the British using it as a military base. The main buildings no longer stand the only thing still standing is the perimeter wall The Oldcastle Agricultural Show: One of the events not to miss is the Oldcastle Show which is held