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Extract from the Ballymote Travel Guides:
If, instead of taking the Lough Arrow route from Collooney, you follow the N17
southwest
for three miles, you can make a diversion along the R293 to the small market town of
BALLYMOTE
, five miles further south. Its fourteenth-century castle, built by Richard de Burgo (the "Red Earl of Ulster"), was once the strongest in Connacht but has associations with major defeats - it was O'Donnell's before he lost at the Battle of Kinsale, and it was James II's possession before he lost at the Boyne. The place has an important and ancient literary connection: it was here, in about 1400, that the Book of Ballymote was...
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