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Extract from the Iniskeen Travel Guides:
INISKEEN
, six miles east of Carrickmacross, is the birthplace of
Patrick Kavanagh
. There's a small plaque bearing some of his verse in the village, and the house he lived in is well signposted - but you can't go in and it's an entirely uninteresting building. Kavanagh is buried in the graveyard of St Mary's church. The church is also home to the
Patrick Kavanagh Rural and Literary Resource Centre
(Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat, Sun and bank holidays 2-6pm; tel 042/937 8560; 2/?2.54), which has displays on Kavanagh and his work as well as local history. In a more distant past, Iniskeen was the site of a sixth-cen...
read the whole Iniskeen Travel Guides...
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