--
Cavan County Museum

Cavan County Museum

Our county Museum aim is to collect, conserve and ultimately display the material heritage and culture of County Cavan and its environs, for the benefit of the public.

Exhibition galleries feature unique artefacts dating from the Stone Age up until the twentieth century, material spanning over 6000 years of occupation in Cavan.

Displays of notable interest include the Killycluggan stone and the three-faced Corleck Head, two of the most recognisable examples of Celtic spirituality in the country.

The museum also houses a medieval Dug-Out boat and a selection of medieval Sheela-na-Gigs, as well as a Folk Life gallery depicting life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Newly-opened galleries deal with topics as diverse as the Great Famine, Percy French and the Lords Farnham. Our temporary exhibition space plays host to visiting and currently relevant exhibitions, whilst our Eden Gallery is home to regular art shows given by local and national artists.

Cavan Genealogy

Cavan Genealogy

Discover your Cavan ancestry at this centre, where its database holds more than half a million records of baptism, marriages, burials, and census.

Located in the Johnston Library Cavan – http://www.rootsireland.ie/cavan-genealogy/

Man’s influence on Cuilcagh Mountain

Man’s influence on Cuilcagh Mountain

Man’s influence on Cuilcagh Mountain dates back to the Neolithic farmers (4,000 – 2,500 BC) who constructed many megaliths, or stone tombs used as burial places.

Bronze Age (2,500 – 500BC) people built large burial cairns that are located on the western and eastern ends of the summit.

Later evidence of human occupancy is sketchy until medieval times when the Irish population was high and land was at a premium.

More recently, the Irish Famine in the mid-19th Century forced people to abandon the land so all that remains of their once thriving rural community today are derelict stone farm cottages and field walls.