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Sat 09 Sep 2009Best-kept secrets: tales of a travel addict
MAGAN'S WORLD: I WISH THERE were road signs pointing towards things like the lost village buried in the sand at Ballyvaston, Co Down, or the ancient "unapproved" carols in Kilmore, Co Wexford, which have been kept alive by a sextet of men for 300 years - dark and brooding songs, featuring witches, leprosy and baths of infant's blood, that have always been frowned upon by the church and never once recorded.
These are the sorts of things I'd like to find at the end of a brown-and-white heritage signpost rather than yet another mound of old stones.
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