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Places of the Name
Village/Town/City:
Curraha, County Meath
Country:
Ireland
Who the place was named after?:
Paud O'Donohoe
Who was he/she?:
He was a young blacksmith who refused to bend to the English soldiers in the rebellion of 1798
Why it was named after him/her?:
He became immortalised in a ballad which can found in the May 2000 society journal
When it was named after him/her?:
Not known
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