The Wee Uprising

COLLON is a pretty, if minute, piece of rural Ireland going unnoticed daily by the rush of traffic on the Dublin Derry road.

A few pubs that do a good passing trade with the N2 lorry drivers, a shop, 300 houses and a GAA club currently capturing the imagination of everyone inside Louth and many outside it.

The club is named for the river Mattock, a meandering slip of water which passes from Louth into Meath. Scholars of Irish mythology might note the Mattock is mentioned within the pages of the Táin, Cuchulainn having one of his many battles with Maeve on its banks. In more recent times, the 14th century to be precise, monks landed on the river and constructed Ireland’s first Cistercian Abbey.