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The museum was established in 1996, and is housed in a 19th-century former convent of the Poor Clare nuns. [1] The museum was established to collect, conserve and display the material heritage and culture of County Cavan, over its 6000-year history, for the benefit of the people.
Dún na Rí Forest Park is a forest park is situated on the County Cavan–County Monaghan border, in Ireland. [1] The park itself borders the Shercock and Carrickmacross roads, more specifically at Magheracloone and Kingscourt. It forms a part of the old Cabra Estate.
Map of Cavan town from 1591 showing its market square and the O'Reilly castle on Tullymongan Hill. Cavan was founded by the Irish clan chief and Lord of East Breifne, Giolla Íosa Ruadh O’Reilly, between 1300 and his death in 1330.
Cloughoughter Castle (Irish: Cloch Locha Uachtair, meaning 'stone castle of Loch Uachtair') [2] is a ruined circular castle on a small island in Lough Oughter, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the town of Killeshandra in County Cavan, Ireland.
William Greenway, poet and Professor of English at Youngstown State University, references the town in the first verse of the song “Cavan Girl”. In the Irish folk song "Cavan Girl", the first-person narrator walks "the road from Killeshandra" that runs "twelve long miles around the lake to get to Cavan town".
National monuments in County Cavan (7 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in County Cavan" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Cavan borders six counties: Leitrim to the west, Fermanagh to the north, Monaghan to the north-east, Meath to the south-east, Longford to the south-west and Westmeath to the south. Cavan shares a 70 km (43 mi) border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. Cavan is the 19th largest of the 32 counties in area and the 25th largest by ...
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