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Where Australia's Greatest Explorer Was Born and Ireland's Last Bardic Poet Found Eternal Rest

December 25th, 1835 witnessed the death of Antoine Ó Raifteiri (Anthony Raftery), Ireland's last wandering bard, at the house of Diarmuid Cloonan in Killeeneen near Craughwell, ending the life of the blind Mayo poet who composed in Irish Gaelic while traveling the roads of wes…

Craughwell is a small place in County Galway. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.