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Extract from the Laracor and Rathcairn Travel Guides:
A couple of miles south of Trim is
LARACOR
, the place where Jonathan Swift lived during his association with Esther "Stella" Johnson and where he was rector (with very little rectitude) from 1699 to 1714. No trace of his time here survives, however. Two miles further is
Dangan Castle
, the family home of the Duke of Wellington, now no more than a shell and again with little trace of its past. Ambrosio O'Higgins, father of Bernardo O'Higgins, liberator of Chile, was born here.
Perhaps of more interest as an excursion is the Irish-speaking community of
RATHCAIRN
, near Ath...
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