Longford Literary Trail
Longford Literary Trail Audio Tour is accessible by scanning the QR codes at the various stops on the trail. These stops includes the following stops:
- Longford Town
- St Paul's Church in Newtownforbes
- Carrickglass Manor
- Edgeworthstown
- Pallas in Abbeyshrule
- Forgney Church, Ballymahon
- Corlea Trackway
- John Keegan Casey, Keenagh
- Ardagh
The tour audio is available in English and Irish.
Listen to a summary of the Longford Literary Trail Audio Tour.
More on Longford Literary Tradition
Longford has a strong literary tradition. It includes Edgeworthstown's Maria Edgeworth. You can follow the Edgeworthstown Walking Trail and learn of the area's history, including visiting the grave of Oscar Wilde's much-loved sister, Isola Francesca Emily Wilde, buried in St John's Courtyard.
You can visit the birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith in Longford, as well as visiting Ardagh village, the location of his famous romantic play She Stoops to Conquer. In Ballymahon, you will see where Goldsmith lived for many years.
Irish rebel poet and songwriter, Leo Casey, was closely connected with Ballymahon and Shrule bridge, with the rebel song At the Rising of the Moon based here. See the places associated with Casey.
Visit Columcille, where Irish poet and novelist Padraic Colum was born.
Carriglass Manor was the ancestral home of Thomas Langlois Lefroy. In 1796, Lefroy began a flirtation with English novelist Jane Austen. Jane Austen wrote two letters to her sister Cassandra mentioning Tom Lefroy, and some have suggested that it may have been he whom Austen had in mind when she invented the character of Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, as the courtship between Tom Lefroy and Jane Austen took place over the year or so that Pride and Prejudice was written.
