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Rathdangan
Sign in to saveRathdangan () is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is in the Electoral Division of Rathdangan, in Civil Parish of Kiltegan, in the Barony of Upper Talbotstown.
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- History
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- Places of interest
- Tober Owen Well
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church
- Post office
- Shoeing stone
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Rathdangan () is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is in the Electoral Division of Rathdangan, in Civil Parish of Kiltegan, in the Barony of Upper Talbotstown.
==History== Evidence of habitation is shown by a Bronze Age burial cist, a fort dating from at least the eight-century and a Norman moat at Killamoat. A 1668 survey records 18 houses in the village. Due to its mountainous elevation, in the severe winters of 1947, 1963 and 1982, Rathdangan was isolated for weeks. In 1985 the town was caught up in the moving statues phenomena gripping Ireland when people claimed to see the Rathdangan Marian Year Virgin Mary statue move.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rathdangan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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