Carrickmacross WorkhouseWhat survives of the famine era workhouse on the edge of town was restored and is open to visitors.
Forest
Dún a Rí Forest Park
Kingscourt, County Cavan
Mixed woodland along the Cabra river outside Kingscourt, with waterfalls, a wishing well and marked trails.
- Where
- Kingscourt, County Cavan
- Official site
- coillte.ie
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
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Carrickmacross WorkhouseWhat survives of the famine era workhouse on the edge of town was restored and is open to visitors.
Carrickmacross Lace GalleryThe appliqué lace has been made in this town since the 1820s, and the gallery is a working one.
Lisnadarragh Wedge TombThe wedge tomb sits in farmland in the south of the county, chamber stones still in place.
St Peter's Tin Church, LaraghCorrugated iron, at Laragh, and one of the few prefabricated tin churches left standing in the country.
Patrick Kavanagh CentreThe centre is in the old Inniskeen church in Patrick Kavanagh's home parish, on his life and the townlands he wrote about.
Inniskeen Round TowerTwelve metres of round tower stump in the village graveyard is all that is left of St Daig's monastery.More in Cavan
Cavan Burren ParkPrehistoric site · BlacklionLimestone upland under Cuilcagh with tombs, old walls and glacial boulders on it, laid out on four trails from the visitor centre.
The Shannon PotRiver · GlangevlinA pool on the side of Cuilcagh is taken as the source of the Shannon, with a short marked trail around it.
Clogh Oughter CastleCastle · KilleshandraThe round 13th century tower stands on its own on a small island in Lough Oughter. You see it from the shore or you go by boat.
Killykeen Forest ParkForest · KilleshandraForest across the wooded islands and inlets of Lough Oughter, with a nature trail and paths along the water.
Cavan County MuseumMuseum · BallyjamesduffA former convent in Ballyjamesduff holds the county museum, with a full scale First World War trench out in the grounds.
Lough OughterLake · KilleshandraSmall lakes and drumlin islands run into each other on this stretch of the Erne, fished and boated all summer.- Moneygashel CashelFort · BlacklionThe drystone wall of this early medieval ringfort stands up to three metres, with stone steps built into its thickness, on high ground above Blacklion.
Drumlane Abbey and Round TowerMonastic site · BelturbetThe round tower stump is over eleven metres high, with the ruined church beside it, on the lakeshore at Milltown south of Belturbet.