  The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) still remains a mystery, even with the
increased number of discoveries in the last three years. Growing evidence
suggests that some FRBs may originate from magnetars. Large, single-dish
telescopes such as Arecibo Observatory (AO) and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have
the sensitivity to detect FRB~121102-like bursts at gigaparsec distances. Here
we present searches using AO and GBT that aimed to find potential radio bursts
at 11 sites of past $\gamma$--ray bursts that show evidence for the birth of a
magnetar. We also performed a search towards GW170817, which has a merger
remnant whose nature remains uncertain. We place $10\,\sigma$ fluence upper
limits of $\approx 0.036$ Jy ms at 1.4 GHz and $\approx 0.063$ Jy ms at 4.5 GHz
for AO data and fluence upper limits of $\approx 0.085$ Jy ms at 1.4 GHz and
$\approx 0.098$ Jy ms at 1.9 GHz for GBT data, for a maximum pulse width of
$\approx 42$ ms. The AO observations had sufficient sensitivity to detect any
FRB of similar luminosity to the one recently detected from the Galactic
magnetar SGR 1935+2154. Assuming a Schechter function for the luminosity
function of FRBs, we find that our non-detections favor a steep power--law
index ($\alpha\lesssim-1.0$) and a large cut--off luminosity ($L_0 \gtrsim
10^{42}$ erg/s).

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