Swanlinbar

Swanlinbar
An Muileann Iarainn
Village
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Swanlinbar is located in Ireland
Swanlinbar
Swanlinbar
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°11′34″N 7°42′22″W / 54.192738°N 7.706180°W / 54.192738; -7.706180
CountryIreland
ProvinceUlster
CountyCavan
Population222
Irish Grid ReferenceH190270

Swanlinbar (Irish: An Muileann Iarainn, meaning 'the iron mill')[2] is a small village on the N87 national secondary road in north-west County Cavan, Ireland, close to the Cladagh river and near the Fermanagh border.

The village is situated in the townlands of Furnaceland and Hawkswood, in the civil parish of Kinawley, in the barony of Tullyhaw. In the 1860s, Swanlinbar had the most celebrated of Cavan's numerous mineral springs.[3]

  1. ^ "Census Interactive Map – Towns: Swanlinbar". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  2. ^ "An Muileann Iarainn/Swanlinbar". Placenames Database of Ireland. Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Cavan County Directory, 1862". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.