Ballyconnell

Ballyconnell stands among the lakes and waterways of western Cavan, near the Woodford River. The surrounding country lay within the Gaelic territory of the Magaurans, but landholding changed during the plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century. In 1610 the Crown granted the lands of the manor of Calva, including Ballyconnell, to the English captain Hugh Culme. An earlier holder, Walter Talbot, had already begun bringing settlers to the area and building houses, part of the reshaping of local society under the plantation.