Introducing County Longford
County Longford (An Longfort) is a quiet farming county largely off the tourist map – to the delight of those who come for the superb fishing around Lough Ree and Lanesborough.
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If you fancy a walking holiday with a difference, consider exploring the region on the towpath of the 145km-long Royal Canal, which runs from Dublin to meet the River Shannon near Clondra, west of Longford town.
One of the three biggest portal dolmens in Ireland, with an improbably balanced top stone, lies at Aughnacliffe in the north; it’s thought to be around 5000 years old.
Longford suffered massive emigration during the Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, and it’s never really recovered. Many Longford migrants went to Argentina, where one of their descendants, Edel Miro O’Farrell, became president in 1914.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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