Trivia
In the film Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise's character is told that the American President is unavailable "because he is fishing in Oughter Ard Co Kildare." The Grand Canal holds fish and runs about 1 km to the north. There is no river in Oughter Ard, although the nearby Morell and Liffey rivers are known for their fishing, and the absence of a water source has been commented on as unusual by historical geographer Tadhg O’Keefe and others for such an important medieval manor and borough.
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