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Notes on Monasterevin, County Kildare

Exploring notable figures from the towns past from St. Abban, who entrusted the site to Evin to the composer Franz Liszt, as well as the Marquess of Drogheda; Wimbledon champion Willoughby Hamilton; Florence Fulton Hobson, Ireland’s first female architect; and Count John McCormack, the renowned tenor, who rented Moore Abbey.