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The trim village of ELPHIN , about four miles northwest of Strokestown, has been the seat of a bishopric for 1500 years, ever since St Patrick founded a church on this spot. The cathedral , rather unconvincingly restored in part in 1982, contains the tombs both of early bishops and of members of the Goldsmith family - Oliver's birthplace is disputed between here and Pallas in County Longford, which has been doing its best to cash in on the Goldsmith connection . Even his famous poem The Deserted Village may describe County Roscommon rather than County Longford (and the English claim it's about the English enclosures); at any rate, he went to school here.
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