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Extract from the Carrickmacross Travel Guides:
CARRICKMACROSS
, ten miles south of Castleblaney, is the county's second most important town, boosted in the nineteenth century by a prosperous lace-making industry. Still, it's a rather modest place with just one broad main street: a planter's Gothic church stands at one end, and a fine mid-nineteenth century courthouse at the other. In between, lies a bustling array of pubs, shops and Georgian houses, and today's lacemakers have their tiny showcase in the nineteenth-century market buildings at the lower end of the main street. Just outside town, landscaped parkland of sumptuous oaks and beeches surrounds
Lough Fea
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