Cloghane's name comes from the Irish clochan, a type of dry-stone hut. Similarly derived, but far to the north, is Cloghan, Co. Donegal -- west of Stranorlar.
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Cloghane's name comes from the Irish clochan, a type of dry-stone hut. Similarly derived, but far to the north, is Cloghan, Co. Donegal -- west of Stranorlar.
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Ballybofey in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Finn.
Balleybofey features one of Ireland's many spelling / pronunciation pitfalls for the "Saxon". An English reader of the name, not forewarned, would be liable to pronounce it "Bally-BO-fee". Correct pronunciation is in fact, "Bally-bo-FAY". In similar wise -- an untutored English person would likely, from reading, pronounce Thurles (Co. Tipperary) to rhyme with "girls". Not so -- it's "THUR-less".
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Roscommon in County Roscommon also has an Irish Famine Museum.
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Braintree in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace.
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Alfreton in Derbyshire also has an equestrian centre.
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) -- always a favourite of mine -- worshipped at times at St. Martin's Church, Alfreton, and was a friend of the vicar there. Dodgson's schooling was at Rugby public school (which, incidentally, he hated).
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Ryton-on-Dunsmoor in Warwickshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Knightlow.
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Burpham in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Arun.
The author, poet and artist Mervyn Peake (1911 -- 68) -- probably best-known for his Gormenghast novel series -- is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's church at Burpham. He lived for spells before and after World War II, on the Channel Island of Sark.
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The island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides has also been declared a Dark Sky Preserve.
The Clan Darroch has considerable associations with Gourock; dating from 1784, when Duncan Darroch returned to Scotland, after a long spell amassing a considerable fortune in the West Indies; he thus acquired the lands and barony of Gourock, from the "previous owners". Some four centuries earlier, the Clan Darroch was prominent in Stirling.
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Elderslie in Renfrewshire also has a Wallace monument.
Elderslie has a -- rather convoluted -- connection with Robert Burns: who spent some time in that area; and when out walking, briefly set eyes on Wilhelmina Alexander, resident of Elderslie -- and was inspired therefrom, to write his poem The Bonnie Lass o' Ballochmyle. Robert and Wilhelmina never actually spoke to each other, but each gave the other a certain amount of "head-space". Burns resided in a number of locations generally between Ayr and Glasgow; including Tarbolton, South Ayrshire.
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Tarbolton is home to the Bachelors' Club Museum, which displays many momentoes of Robert Burns and his pals. There is also a small Burns museum in the Globe Inn at Dumfries, which he used to frequent when living in that town in the years leading up to his untimely death at the age of 37.
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Cranwell in Leicestershire also has an aviation museum.
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Eastgate in Co. Durham also had a cement works.
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Formby in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Compassion.
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Carlidnack in Cornwall also has a site of an ancient ringfort within its environs.
Basically, the only thing mentioned by Wiki about Carlidnack: would seem to be its archaeological riches, as per quote. I find self forced back on convoluted and rather dreadful wordplay ... (1) one might perhaps interpret Carlidnack, in terms of automobiles with the kind of roofs which can be open or shut, depending on the weather -- i.e., competent mastery of the managing of this fitment. (2) involves a hamlet near Perranporth, and those seemingly multitudinous Cornish saints. We have had previously, the business about St. Piran, after whom the Perran- places are reckoned to be named. Apparently, some consider the Irish St. Ciaran, to be one and the same as St. Piran; others hold that they were two different guys. Assuming the latter to be the case; one might fantasise about a conversation between two evil spirits, with one offering advice: "You want to beware of those two -- they're a menace to our sort. Ciaran zaps you up high -- and Perranzabuloe."
(I'll get my coat ...)
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St Agnes in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Pydar.
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Camborne in Cornwall was also a noted centre of the tin mining industry.
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Bossington in Somerset also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.