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| INISKEEN , six miles east of Carrickmacross, is the birthplace of
Patrick Kavanagh . There's a small plaque bearing some of his verse in
the village, and the house he lived in is well signposted - but you
can't go in and it's an entirely uninteresting building. Kavanagh is
buried in the graveyard of St Mary's church. The church is also home to
the Patrick Kavanagh Rural and Literary Resource Centre (Mon-Fri
11am-5pm; Sat, Sun and bank holidays 2-6pm; tel 042/937 8560; £2/¬2.54),
which has displays on Kavanagh and his work as well as local history. In
a more distant past, Iniskeen was the site of a sixth-century monastic
centre: scant remains of the abbey and a round tower survive. The Folk
Museum (by arrangement only, tel 042/937 8102) deals with local history,
folk life and the old Great Northern Railway. |
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