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Town of SWANLINBAR

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"Swanlinbar, a post-town, in the parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullaghagh, county of Cavan, and province of Ulster, 8 miles (N.W.) from Ballyconnell, to which it has a penny-post; containing 398 inhabitants. This town is supposed to have derived its origin from a rich iron mine in the neighbouring mountain of Cuilcagh, which was worked at a remote period to a very considerable extent. The ore was smelted into pig iron in furnaces about half a mile distant, and manufactured into bars at some works erected upon a powerful mountain stream which flows through the village : these works were continued till all the timber of the mountains was consumed in smelting the ore, when they were necessarily abandoned. In 1786 a considerable part of the town was destroyed by an accidental fire, which consumed 22 houses." [From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (1837)]

"SWANLINBAR, a post town in the parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, county Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland, 8 miles N.W. of Ballyconnell. It is situated among the mountains, on the old road from Ballyconnell to Enniskillen, and is celebrated for its medicinal waters. It is a chief police station, and petty sessions are held occasionally. There were formerly extensive iron works here." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]

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Church History

Traynor, O. F., St. Mary's Church, Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan, Monaghan, R. and S. Printers, 1978. NLI Ir 27411 p 5

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Gazetteers

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History

Cunningham, T.P. "Swalinbar and Its Ironworks", Breifne, V. 6 No. 21, 1982, pp. 95-98

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Maps

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Military Records

  • Snodaigh, P.O. Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995
    • Swalingbar Infantry - 1779, 1780, 1783, 1784
    • Swalinbar an Bawnboy Volunteers, Swadlingbar, Swadlinbar Company