Bus
Bus Eireann provide services to County Cavan from Dublin, Belfast, Galway and other counties. For further information on bus services telephone:
01 8366111 ( Dublin) or
049 31353 (Cavan, Farnham Street).
Other bus companies are:
Streamline, Laragh, Cavan Tel 049 30281
Whartons, Crossdoney, Cavan Tel. 049 37114.

Rail
There are no rail services in County Cavan

Sea
Ireland is linked to Britain and Europe by a number of car-ferry routes. The main ports of entry are Cork, Dublin and Rosslare.

Airports
Dublin Airport is situated approximately 6 miles outside the city centre. 01 8141111

Knock International Airport is a growing airport with a £30 million industrial zone development plan. Knock has two Ryanair flights a day to Stanstead, three in the high season, with four British Airways flights a week to Manchester, and one Aer Lingus flight per week to Birmingham. There are regular connecting flights to Dublin. 094 67222

Car Rental Agencies

Brady's Rent-a-Car	Arva	049 35115
Clarkes Car Rentals	Cavan	049 31749
Francis Graham Car Hire	Cavan	049 61844
Francis Graham	Cavan Town	049 61844

Taxi Companies

Aircraft Hire

Hotels

Flat Rental Agencies

Office Rental Agencies

 RURAL

Killykeen Forest Park
This is located near Cavan Town. It is a 600 acre forest and nearby self-catering chalets are by the shore of Lough Oughter.


Dun-a-Ri Forest park
Located near Kingscourt, the forest covers 558 acres. The park is famous for its "wishing well" and wide variety of shrubs and rhodendrons.


Mullameen Beech Forest Park
Mullameen overlooks Lough Sheelin.


The Cavan Way
Historical marked trail from Backlion to Dowra (16 miles)

 COASTAL

River Erne
Cavan has some of Europe's most beautiful lakes and waterways. The River Erne rises in Lough Gowna and flows northwards through the centre of the county spreading into a group of lakes ideal for angling and watersports.

Lough Oughter
Lough Oughter lies south of the cruiser base at Belturbet, and has a fine amenity in Kilykeen Forest Park. Tree-clad islands are interwoven with lakes.

Lough Sheelin
A lake situated near the source of the Erne River.

The Shannon-Erne Waterway
The old Ballinamore-Ballyconnell Canal has been reopened and links the Shannon and Erne.

Other lakes
Lough Erne, Lough MacNean , Lough Gowna and Lough Ramor.

 HISTORICAL

Cavan Folk Museum, Cornafean
This museum is known as the "Pig House Collection" with more than 3,000 items including costumes, books, kitchen and household goods, farmyard tools and machinery reflecting the rural life-style from the 1700s to the present.


Finn McCool's Fingers
Bronze Age Stones, located at Shantemon near Cavan Town.


Farnham House
Just west of Cavan Town this house and demesne dates from 1700 and covers a 3000-acre area of woodland.


Cloughoughter Castle
Situated on an islet in Lough Oughter, lies this 13th century ruin in which Owen Roe O’Neill died.


The Cavan Way
Historical marked trail from Backlion to Dowra (16 miles)


Drumlane Church and Round Tower
Milltown, Belturbet, Co. Cavan


Motte and Bailey
An ancient fortification situated in Belturbet.

 INTERIORS

Roman Catholic Cathedral
Cavan Town


Clough Oughter Castle
This 13th century fortress lies in Killykeen.


Church of Ireland Cathedral
Kilmore, Co. Cavan.

 URBAN

Cavan Town
This town is the capital of the most southerly county of the province of Ulster. It stands in an area of low hills east of Lough Oughter. It is the site of a Franciscan Friary founded in 1300. A plaque here commemorates the victory of Owen Roe O’Neill in the 1646 Battle of Benburb.


Virginia
On the border with Meath, Virginia sits on the north shore of Lough Ramor, which has several islets and is a good base for fishing.


Belturbet
This small town is located a few miles north of Lough Oughter and is an angling and boating resort with a new marina.


Other towns
Ballyconnell, Cootehill, Killeshandra and Baileborough.

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