There is a rock not far from Carrickmacross called "The Wild Goose Lodge". It is said that there was a hiding place under this rock where "The Earls of Ulster who were called Wild Geese, took shelter when flying to France
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Wolfe Tone When Wolfe Tone was being taken prisoner to Dublin he passed close to Carrickmacross. There is a meadow close to the town where men were drilled who fought at the Boyne and Aughrim. The great John O Donovan who visited Carrick in 1835 declared that the inhabitants were as Irish then as in the days of Owen Roe O'Neill At Lough afooka (Loch a' Phúca)
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