Bailieborough

A Cavan town founded by William Bailie, a Scottish planter granted land by James I, who had built his manor house by 1613. Its first huddle of thatched houses at the castle gates was thought unsightly, so the town was moved. Rebels drilled in the castle grounds before 1798, and a memorial stands at the foot of Rebel Hill.

Before the Plantation the area was Killechally or Killycolly. Bailie's grant obliged him to build a house and bawn within two years, settle tenants and keep arms, and by 1613 he had the Manor of Bailieburrow, later Bailieborough Castle. A 1626 report already used the name Bailieborough. The estate passed in 1685 to a Hamilton and was later sold to Colonel Stewart and then to Stewart Corry. In 1814 it went to Sir William Young, back from the East Indies, who is credited with the design of the Main Street.

The courthouse went up in 1817 and the Bridewell in 1833. A new Church of Ireland church was begun in 1833 and finished in 1875, and a new Catholic church built in 1839 replaced an 18th-century thatched chapel. The castle was damaged by fire in the early 20th century and demolished in the 1930s. On 9 July 1921 the barracks in the town were attacked and taken and the garrison's arms seized.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Bailieborough ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Bailieborough Castle · castle · 2 km
• Cabra Castle · castle · 13 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Loughcrew cairns · Thirty tombs on the 'Hill of the Witch'; Cairn T's back-stone lights up at the equinox sunrise, and the 'Hag's Chair' outside grants a wish if you sit in it.
• Loughcrew — the Hag's Chair · The Cailleach leapt from hill to hill dropping stones from her apron to make the cairns, missed her footing on the last leap and died — her chair is still there.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.