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Where Ireland's Last Town to Fall to Cromwell Guards the Historic Heart of the Shannon-Erne Waterway

The dramatic siege and capture of Turbet Island by Walter de Lacy during the early 13th-century Anglo-Norman conquest of the Kingdom of East Breifne established the first fortified presence at this strategic river crossing, where the construction of a motte-and-bailey castle o…

Belturbet is a small place in County Cavan. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.