Ballyjamesduff

A Cavan town remembered in Percy French's song 'Come Back, Paddy Reilly, to Ballyjamesduff', about a man from the area who had been French's driver and then emigrated. It won the Tidy Towns in 1966 and 1967, and was once said to have the highest pub-to-person ratio in Ireland, about one pub for every 34 people. Marcus Daly, the 'Montana Copper King', was born nearby in 1841.

The first known mention of Ballyjamesduff is a deed in the Registry of Deeds dated 12 May 1714. In 1837 Samuel Lewis described it as an old market town on the mail-coach road from Virginia to Cavan; its parish had been made in 1831 from townlands taken from four neighbouring parishes. The Market House was built in 1815 to mark Wellington's victory at Waterloo, designed by the Cavan architect Arthur McClean, who later settled in Ontario. John Wesley preached here and built a church in the 18th century. In July 1922 the barracks garrison was attacked with rifle fire and grenades, without casualties, and the town won the Tidy Towns in 1966 and 1967.

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

• 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.

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