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Extract from the Elphin Travel Guides:
The trim village of
ELPHIN
, about four miles northwest of Strokestown, has been the seat of a bishopric for 1500 years, ever since St Patrick founded a church on this spot. The
cathedral
, rather unconvincingly restored in part in 1982, contains the tombs both of early bishops and of members of the Goldsmith family - Oliver's birthplace is disputed between here and Pallas in County Longford, which has been doing its best to cash in on the Goldsmith connection
. Even his famous poem
The Deserted Village
may describe County Roscommon rather than County Longford (and...
read the whole Elphin Travel Guides...
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