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Extract from the Cooksborough Travel Guides:
COOKSBOROUGH
, a hamlet of a few houses strung together about eight miles east of Mullingar on the Delvin Road (N52), has an unusual beehive-shaped tomb, which might tempt you as a short detour. Neither Cooksborough nor the tomb is signposted but you can find it by looking out for the sign to the
Bee Hive Nite Club
: about thirty yards past this, in the direction of Delvin, enter by an old gate and cross the field to a church and graveyard smothered in bramble, weed and grass. The tomb, which looks like a stone missile warhead poking out of its silo, is that of
Adolphus Cooke
and his nurse Mary Kelly. A f...
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