This geography also helped the O'Reilly Clan retain control in County Cavan even after the Norman arrival in Ireland in 1169. The difficulty of traversing the Cavan terrain, with its many thick forests, hidden valleys, watery bogs and lakes, combined with the skill of the O'Reilly cavalry, ...
CAVAN (County of), an inland county of the province of ULSTER, bounded on the north by the county of Fermanagh; on the west, by that of Leitrim; on the south, by those of Longford, Westmeath, and Meath; and on the east and north-east, by that of Monaghan. It extends from 53°...
History of Ireland: Lesson for Kids from Chapter 20/ Lesson 19 5.8K In this lesson, you will learn about how Ireland survived famine, war, and Viking invasions to grow from an area inhabited by Stone Age tribes to a thriving independent country. ...
Republic of Ireland countiesCarlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow ...
Potito (2017) Mid-Late Holocene Vegetational History and Land-Use Dynamics in County Monaghan, Northeastern Ireland—The Palynological Record of Lough Muckno. Journal of the North Atlantic: Vol. 32, No. 32: Mid-Late Holocene Vegetational History and Land-use Dynamics in County Monaghan, ...
A comprehensive history of the name of the Mountains of Mourne is found in the volume of Place-Names of Northern Ireland, cited above, beginning at page 119. The book outlines the circumstances in which the tribal name Mughdorna was transferred from Monaghan to Down: ...
These maps were made in 1837, just 10 years before the disaster of the "Great Famine" in 1847. 1837 is a particularly significant time in Ireland's history at the period of the historically highest population and immediately prior to the great exodus of Ireland's population - mainly to the...
Co. MonaghanIrelandWhen assessing the conservation value of ecological resources there is usually concensus in delimiting areas of outstanding national or international interest. Such sites include the Burren for its flora or Newgrange for its archaeological remains. Difficulties are encountered, however, ...
King of Ireland, to his native dominion of Munster, instead of being, as formerly, attached to Leinster. Subsequent passages of history prove it to have been a district of considerable importance. When Malachy was forming a confederacy of all the native princes against the Danes, the king of...
Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837, however, indicates that Corcreagh was in the county of Killanny:"Counties Monaghan & Louth, Ireland—Civil Parishes. "KILLANEY, a parish, partly in the barony of Ardee, county of Louth, and province of Leinster, but chiefly in the barony ...