Belturbet

Belturbet is a city in County Cavan, Ireland. It lies on the N3 street, round 14 km north of Cavan metropolis and 123 km from Dublin. It is also positioned round 4 km south of the border with Northern Ireland, among the counties of Cavan and Fermanagh, and 36 km from Enniskillen. Belturbet's place is traditionally one of the excellent locations for crossing the River Erne. When the Anglo-Normans attempted to conquer Cavan in the early 13th century, Walter de Lacy constructed a motte-and-bailey on Turbet Island. The fort become in all likelihood product of wooden and has not survived, although the steep mound of earth in which it become built can nevertheless be seen. In the overdue 16th century the local O'Reilly chieftains constructed a citadel contrary Turbot Island, however this has no longer survived both.

As part of the Plantation of Ulster inside the early 17th century, the lands around Belturbet have been granted to the English "undertaker" Stephen Butler. He quickly mounted a thriving city centre, whose prosperity relied closely on its role on the Erne. The metropolis changed into seized via the Irish at some stage in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and was the site of one of the massacres of planters, in which over dozen humans were thrown from the city's bridge and drowned. In March 1653, below Viscount Magennis of Iveagh, it became the last metropolis in Ireland to fall to Cromwell; the final Irish stronghold at nearby Cloughoughter held out for a similarly month.