Top Casual Dining Spots at Restaurant Cavan

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The Clans of Cavan: A Field Guide to the Families Who Ran the Place

O’Reilly, Brady, McKiernan, McGovern, and a supporting cast of bards, gallowglass and gap-toothed chieftains. How a handful of families divided County Cavan between them, fell out about it for four centuries, and left the paperwork behind.

Pike, Bream and Brown Trout: Fishing in Cavan, the County Built on Water

Eight hundred hectares of water beside a town of five thousand people. Cavan has been an angling destination for decades, mostly for visitors who knew something the locals had stopped noticing.

Cavan Townlands: How to Read the County Through Its Place Names

There are more than sixty thousand townlands in Ireland and a lot of them are in Cavan. Here is how to read them, and why they are the single most useful thing in a family search.

Cavan Burren Park: A Walk Through 340 Million Years

Limestone laid down in a tropical sea, boulders dropped by ice, and wedge tombs left by the first farmers. Cavan Burren Park is free, quiet and almost unbelievably old.

Boxty: The Cavan Griddle Bread That Nearly Disappeared

Raw grated potato, a settled starch and a griddle. Boxty is Cavan and Leitrim at their most stubborn, and it is harder to find than the rhyme about it.

Are Cavan People Mean? Inside the Myth of the Mean Cavan Man

Every county gets a joke. Cavan’s is that its people are tight with money. Where did the mean Cavan man come from — and is there any truth in it?

Hidden Gems in Cavan: The Spots the Brochures Mention Last

The source of the River Shannon, a two-thousand-year-old stone with opinions, a castle that surrendered last, and a doorway that survived eight centuries. Cavan’s best sights are the ones you have to be told about.

The McQuillans: The Clan That Owned Dunluce Before It Was Famous

The McQuillans were Lords of the Route in north Antrim, held Dunluce Castle, lost it to the MacDonnells, and their name has been at home in Monaghan for generations.

Cavan’s 365 Lakes: A Tour of the Lakes & Rivers County

Cavan claims 365 lakes, one for every day of the year. Nobody has counted them, and counting isn’t the point. A tour of the county’s watery bits, from Lough Oughter’s drowned valleys to the trout waters of Lough Sheelin.