Athea
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Athea (Irish: Áth an tSléibhe) is a small town in west County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, located near Newcastle West in the midwest of Ireland. The settlement did not flourish until the building of a road from Abbeyfeale to Glin in the 1830s, resulting in Athea being at a crossroads with the road from Listowel to Limerick. Athea has a church, and the town is the centre for the Catholic parish of Athea, encompassing several townlands.
IRA leader Con Colbert, the youngest man to be executed by the British after the Easter Rising in 1916, was born in the parish of Athea in 1888.
The folklorist and historian Kevin Danaher was born and raised in the town.
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