County Cavan Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county in Ireland
About County Cavan
This area is apost-glaciallandscape of poor soils, drumlins (see below) and bogs: not much to fight over, and if you sent an army it would get stuck in something unpleasant. Until medieval times it was part of the kingdom of Bréifne, a buffer state between Ulster, Connacht and Leinster. Its Gaelic rulers the O'Rourke dynasty staunchly resisted Norman incursions but then warred among themselves, and their kingdom sundered into east and west. Once Elizabeth I of England subdued it, east Bréifne became County Cavan and part of Ulster, while west Bréifne became County Leitrim in Connacht. Loyal English and Scots colonists were then settled in any potentially rebellious part of Ireland, which was pretty much all of it, but especially Ulster. They founded a series of "plantation" towns, such as
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