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Shillelagh

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Shillelagh

Village in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland, 26 km/16 mi southwest of Arklow; population (2002) 467. The district was once covered by the Shillelagh Wood, and the village gives its name to a rough cudgel of oak or blackthorn, now manufactured as a tourist souvenir. Oak from the wood was supplied for the roofing of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, and Westminster Hall in London.

Coolattin Park lies 2 km/1 mi east of Shillelagh; once the estate of the Earls of Fitzwilliam, it is now a golf course. At Aghowle, 8 km/5 mi to the west, are the remains of a 12th-century church with a Romanesque carved doorway and windows, and a cross on the site of a monastery founded by St Finian of Clonard.



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