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The Best Attractions In Keenagh

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Keenagh or Kenagh is a village in County Longford, Ireland. It is situated on the R397 near the Royal Canal. A small village with two churches, , a couple of shops and three pubs, it lies 14 km south of Longford Town. There is also a GAA club in the village and a community centre. Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age trackway near the village. In the period 2000 to 2007 many new houses were built around Keenagh, due to the tax incentives available in the area and without direct consideration to demand - many are now vacant or incomplete constituting ghost estates.
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  • 1. Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre Keenagh
    The Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age trackway, or togher, near the village of Keenagh, south of Longford town, County Longford, in Ireland. It was known locally as the Danes' Road. It was constructed from oak planks in 148–147 BC. The trackway is situated in an area which is the site of industrial-scale mechanised peat harvesting by the Bord na Móna, principally to supply the peat-fired power stations of the Electricity Supply Board. While today a generally flat and open landscape, in the Iron Age it was covered by bog, quicksand, and ponds, surround by dense woodlands of birch, willow, hazel and alder while higher ground was covered by oak and ash. The terrain was dangerous and impassible for much of the year. In 1984, timbers recovered from Corlea were radiocarbon dated to the Iron Age,...
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