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Article: Treetops and historic stops
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 8, 2009
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GO IRELAND: With a 12th-century abbey and the aristocratic King
House at its heart, and a forest park on its doorstep, the town of
Boyle will keep you busy, writes MELOSINA LENOX-CONYNGHAM WHEN I
WAS 40 I was sad that so many people knew my age. At 60 I was dyeing
my hair a sort of orange and squeezing into tiny shorts. At 65 I
bought a rocking chair and checked my medical insurance. But at 66 I
received my free-travel pass. So now I am as free as a bird. Or
rather a bus. So on a wet morning, instead of peering through rain-
lashed windows, I jump on some form of public transport to somewhere
else.
Looking at the timetable, I found that Boyle, in Co Roscommon,
had a railway station. So I ...
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