Longford takes its name from An Longfort, ‘the stronghold’, a small midlands county once known as Annaly, the territory of the O’Farrell clan for over four hundred years.
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Longford takes its name from An Longfort, ‘the stronghold’, a small midlands county once known as Annaly, the territory of the O’Farrell clan for over four hundred years.
This is the county of the Corlea Trackway, an Iron Age road of oak planks laid across the bog nearly two thousand years ago and preserved perfectly in the peat — proof that even Ireland’s quietest corners hold deep history.
