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Extract from the Banagher Travel Guides:
A couple of miles downstream from Shannon Harbour,
BANAGHER
consists of one long street sloping down to the Shannon, fortified on the Connacht side by a Martello tower. With the construction of a new marina, it's rapidly turning itself into a relaxed and elegant tourist centre for the Irish Midlands, as it once was in the nineteenth century when Anthony Trollope was sent here as a Post Office surveyor in 1841, and wrote his first book,
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
; Charlotte Bront spent her honeymoon here.
Cloghan Castle
, two miles out of town and signposted from the centre, is a ma...
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