Guides to using cavantownlands.ie

This page contains a number of articles that will help the user to navigate this website and to find relevant historical data.

Guide to 17th century surveys of Cavan

Guide to 17th century surveys of Cavan

This article by Michael McShane first appeared in Breifne The Journal of Breifne Historical Society 2019. We are fortunate that the troubled history of County Cavan has resulted in the ...
Irish Lives Remembered Summer 2021

Irish Lives Remembered Summer 2021

The article below appeared in the Summer 2021 edition of Irish Lives Remembered. We would like to thank the editor, Patrick Roycroft, for featuring the relaunch of CavanTownlands in this ...
Video of presentation to The Genealogical Society of Ireland on Townlands including an overview of content on CavanTownlands.ie 12th October 2021

Video of presentation to The Genealogical Society of Ireland on Townlands including an overview of content on CavanTownlands.ie 12th October 2021

'The significance of the Irish townland as an analytical tool for the genealogist and local historian with an introduction and overview of CavanTownlands.ie.' The format of the talk falls into ...
Video guides to this website

Video guides to this website

This short video provides a brief overview of content on the site and will guide you on how best to use the search facility to track down your townland of ...
Searching Tithe Applotment Books

Searching Tithe Applotment Books

Guide to the location and navigation of the digitised images on the FamilySearch (LDS) website. The lists of tenant names which we provide on this website have been scraped from ...