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Extract from the Athenry Travel Guides:
ATHENRY
, thirteen miles east of Galway city, is renowned for the song
The Fields of Athenry
, a poignant indictment of the horrors of the Famine that has mutated into a drunken closing-time song and a football terrace chant. However, the town's history has little to do with the Famine and more to do with its position as a strategic crossing point on the Clareen river (reflected in its Gaelic name
Baile th an R
, which means "town of the ford of the king"). It was for this reason that the town became so heavily fortified and a base for Anglo-Norman control - so much a feature of east Galway and so...
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