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Extract from the Athy Travel Guides:
On the border with County Laois, five miles north of Kilkea, close to the point where the Grand Canal meets the River Barrow, sits
ATHY
(rhymes with sty, emphasis on the last syllable), one of those places where a bucketful of imagination is required to envisage it as it once was: prosperity has turned a formerly handsome Georgian town with a fine main square into something much more ramshackle. Georgian fanlights sit oddly with a bizarre modern church: the latter is apparently supposed to make reference to a dolmen, although the Sydney Opera House seems a stronger influence. Athy's designation as a heritage town, however, is bringing...
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