Athboy

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Athboy is a small agricultural town in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland. Located on the Athboy River, in a wooded country near the County Westmeath border. In medieval times it was a walled stronghold of the Pale. Owen Roe O' Neill took it in 1643, and six years later Oliver Cromwell camped his army on the Hill of Ward nearby. The tower of the Protestant church is a remnant of a fourteenth-century Carmelite priory. Behind the church are remains of the town walls.

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