County Cavan
County Cavan is in Northwest Ireland and Lakelands. It's traditionally in the province of Ulster, but in 1921 was one of the three Ulster counties assigned to the Republic of Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cavan Town and Belturbet.
Cavan Town
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Cavan is the county town of County Cavan in northwest Ireland. The same name is used for the county, so on this page it's referred to as Cavan Town wherever ambiguity might arise.
Belturbet
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Belturbet is a small town on the River Erne in County Cavan, with a population in 2022 of about 1600. In Irish it's Béal Tairbirt, "mouth of the isthmus", and it grew up at a ford on the river. Boating and angling are the main reasons to visit.
Virginia
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Virginia is a small town in County Cavan in the north of the Republic of Ireland, with a population in 2022 of 3200. Like the US State, it's named for Elizabeth I, and was settled from 1612 as a "plantation" town.
Destinations to Discover
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Bailieborough
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Bailieborough is a town in the east of County Cavan in northwest Ireland, with a population of 3000 in 2022. It's within an hour's drive of Dublin and is mostly a commuter town.
County Cavan
- Type: county of Ireland with 76,200 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “An Cabhan”, “An Cabhán”, “Cavan”, and “Co Cavan”
- Neighbors: County Fermanagh, County Leitrim, County Longford, County Meath, County Monaghan, County Westmeath, and Northern Ireland
- Location: Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“County Cavan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كافان”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه كافان”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Cavan”
- Basque: “Cavan konderria”
- Basque: “Cavaneko konderri”
- Belarusian: “графства Каван”
- Belarusian: “Каван (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Каван”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি কভেন”
- Breton: “Kontelezh An Cabhán”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Cavan”
- Bulgarian: “Каван”
- Catalan: “comtat de Cavan”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Cavan”
- Cebuano: “An Cabhán”
- Central Kurdish: “کاونتی کاڤان”
- Chinese: “Cavan Kūn”
- Chinese: “卡文郡”
- Czech: “Cavan”
- Czech: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Czech: “County Cavan”
- Czech: “Hrabství Cavan”
- Danish: “County Cavan”
- Dutch: “County Cavan”
- Esperanto: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Esperanto: “County Cavan”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Cavan”
- Estonian: “Cavani krahvkond”
- Finnish: “Cavanin kreivikunta”
- French: “Cavan”
- French: “comté de Cavan”
- French: “Comté de Cavan”
- Galician: “Condado de Cavan”
- Georgian: “კავანის საგრაფო”
- German: “An Cabhán”
- German: “County Cavan”
- German: “IE-CN”
- Greek: “Κάβαν”
- Greek: “κομητεία Κάβαν”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી કાવાન”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קאוואן”
- Hindi: “काउंटी कैवन”
- Hungarian: “Cavan megye”
- Indonesian: “County Cavan”
- Irish: “An Cabhán”
- Irish: “Co. an Chabháin”
- Irish: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Italian: “Cavan”
- Italian: “Contea di Cavan”
- Italian: “County Cavan”
- Japanese: “キャヴァン県”
- Japanese: “キャバン県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಕ್ಯಾವನ್”
- Korean: “캐번주”
- Kurdish: “County Cavan”
- Latin: “Comitatus Cavanensis”
- Latin: “Comitatus Clarensis”
- Latvian: “Kevanas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Kavano grafystė”
- Macedonian: “Каван”
- Malay: “County Cavan”
- Manx: “Cavan”
- Manx: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Manx: “Coontae yn Chavan”
- Manx: “Countee yn Chavan”
- Manx: “Y Cavan”
- Marathi: “काउंटी कावन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cavan Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Cavan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cavan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “County Cavan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Cavan”
- Norwegian: “Cavan”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cafanscīr”
- Ossetian: “Каван (графад)”
- Ossetian: “Каван”
- Persian: “شهرستان کاوان”
- Polish: “Cavan”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Cavan”
- Quechua: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Cavan”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Cavan”
- Romanian: “Județul Cavan”
- Russian: “Графство Каван”
- Russian: “Каван”
- Scots: “Coontie Cavan”
- Scots: “Coonty Cavan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae a‘ Chabháin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Serbian: “Kavan”
- Serbian: “Каван”
- Sinhala: “කැවන් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Cavan”
- Slovenian: “Cavan”
- Slovenian: “County Cavan”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Cavan”
- Spanish: “Cavan Irlanda”
- Spanish: “Cavan”
- Spanish: “Condado de Cavan”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Cavan”
- Swedish: “Bawnboy Belturbet”
- Swedish: “Cavan”
- Swedish: “Contae an Chabhain”
- Swedish: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Swedish: “County Cavan”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Kavan”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Каван”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி காவல்”
- Telugu: “కౌంటీ కేవాన్”
- Thai: “เมืองหลวงคาวาน”
- Turkish: “An Cabhán ilçesi”
- Turkish: “An Cabhán”
- Turkish: “Cavan Co.”
- Turkish: “Cavan County”
- Turkish: “Cavan ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Cavan Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Cavan”
- Turkish: “Chábhán”
- Turkish: “Co an Chabháin”
- Turkish: “Co Cavan”
- Turkish: “Co. an Chabháin”
- Turkish: “Co. Cavan”
- Turkish: “Contae an Chabháin”
- Turkish: “IE-CN”
- Ukrainian: “графство Каван”
- Ukrainian: “Каван”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی کاوان”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی کیوان”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Cavan”
- Welsh: “Swydd Cavan”
- Western Panjabi: “کاون”
- Wu Chinese: “卡文郡”
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