Dromahair

Dromahair lies beside the River Bonet near Lough Gill, in the country once ruled by the O'Rourkes of Bréifne. Their castle stood here, and nearby Creevelea friary was founded in 1508 by Owen O'Rourke and his wife Margaret O'Brien. Though suppressed in 1541, the Franciscan house retained a presence for many years. The village developed further in the seventeenth century after lands around it were granted to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; a fortified house rose near the site of the older O'Rourke castle.