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Callan

County Kilkenny, Ireland
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About Callan

Callan is a marketplace town in County Kilkenny in Ireland. Situated 16 km south of Kilkenny at the N76 road to Clonmel, it is near the border between County Tipperary. It is the largest town in the county, with a recorded population of 2,330. Callen is the leader city of the barony of the same call. Callan was based by way of William the Marshal in 1207 and reputedly receives its call from the High King of Ireland, Niall Caille. It is pronounced that while at warfare with the Norsemen the High King arrived in Callan to discover that its river changed into in flood.

The King witnessed his servant looking to move the river and being swept away by using the fast flowing modern-day. The King, recorded in history as a person of action, seeing the approaching catastrophe, impetuously urged his horse into the short flowing river in a vain bid to shop his servant, simplest to be additionally overcome and drowned through the torrent. The river in question is now named the "Kings River".

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