A village on the Galway-Dublin road , Craughwell was the birthplace of Robert O'Hara Burke (q.v.) , who explored central Australia in the nineteenth century , and the graveyard of Killeeneen holds the grave of 'Blind Raftery' (Anthony Raftery) , ( 1784 -1834 ) , poet , harpist and composer of songs. The local countryside has a number of field monuments : ruins of castles , gallery graves , pillar stones , ring barrows and tumuli. Nearby is St. Cleran's House , formerly the home of film director John Huston. The kennels of the local hunt , the Galway Blazers , are nearby. Links to other web-site/pages Craughwell National School Craughwell's Community website Thanks to P.J.Callanan (see our guestbook) who suggested them both.