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JAMESTOWN AND DRUMSNA |
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The village of JAMESTOWN , just over two miles southeast of Carrick
off the N4 Dublin road, is a town dating from James I's "plantation" of
Leitrim in 1622 - its main road passes through a gate in the old estate
walls. The Georgian houses and the wooded riverbanks create a peaceful
atmosphere of planned eighteenth-century living. Jamestown makes a good
centre for fishing; if you want to stay, try Weir View (tel 078/24726;
£33-40/¬41.90-50.79). The Arch is one of a couple of nice pubs right in
the centre
At DRUMSNA , about a mile or so east of Jamestown, excavations in the
summer of 1989 unearthed huge stretches of a Stone Age wall - one of the
oldest artificial structures in the world. It's been estimated that it
would have taken a labour force of thirty thousand men ten years to
build its full length. The village itself is a single street of neat
houses leading down to the river. A plaque on the wall of Taylor's
Lounge claims that Anthony Trollope began his novel The MacDermots of
Ballycloran here in 1848. The MacDermots were great Catholic landowners
during the eighteenth century who were ruined by the anti-Catholic Penal
Laws.
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