Editing Cavan (section)

===Gaelic Cavan 1300–1607===

[[File:Cavan Towne Map 1591.jpg|thumb|left|Map of Cavan town from 1591 showing its market square and the O'Reilly castle on Tullymongan Hill]]
Cavan was founded by the [[Chief of the Name|Irish clan chief]] and Lord of [[East Breifne]], Giolla Íosa Ruadh O’Reilly, between 1300 and his death in 1330. During his lordship, a [[Priory|friary]] run by the [[Dominican Order]] was established close to the O’Reilly stronghold at Tullymongan and was at the centre of the settlement close to a crossing over the river and to the town's marketplace. It is recorded that the (Cavan) Dominicans were expelled in 1393, replaced by an Order of Conventual [[Franciscan]] friars. The friary's location is marked by an eighteenth-century tower in the graveyard at Abbey Street which appears to incorporate remains of the original medieval friary tower. The imprint of the medieval town can be followed in the area of Abbey Street, Bridge Street and Main Street (townlands of Tullymongan Upper and Lower).

Clan O'Reilly later built a new castle in the late fourteenth century on Tullymongan Hill, overlooking the town centre. In the 15th century, the local ruler, Bearded Owen O'Reilly, expanded the town marketplace which attracted merchants from [[Dublin]] and [[Drogheda]]. The phrase "life of Reilly" is believed to derive from the great wealth and power of the Chief of Clan O'Reilly, some of which came from the market. The Chiefs also allowed, however, counterfeit English and Scottish coins to be minted in their territory at this time.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Parker |first=Kieran |title=The Ui Raghallaigh Lordship of East Breifne c.1250-.c. 1450 |journal=Brefne |year=1991 |volume=8 |issue=2 |page=415 |url=http://breifnehistory.com/journal.html}}</ref>

During the [[Elizabethan era]] religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop [[Dermot O'Hurley]], who would be one of the most celebrated of the 24 [[Irish Catholic Martyrs]], was covertly sheltered by [[Thomas Fleming, 10th Baron Slane]] at [[Slane Castle]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The Irish Martyrs |editor1=Patrick J. Cornish |editor2=Benignus Millet |date=2005 |publisher=Four Courts Press |location=Dublin |page=69 |isbn=978-1-85182-858-6}}</ref> where the Archbishop was allegedly concealed inside a [[priest hole]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Conyngham |first=David Power |title=Lives of the Irish Martyrs |date=1873 |publisher=D. & J. Sadlier |location=New York |pages=63–64 |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofirishmart0000unse/page/62/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name="Dermot O'Hurley">{{cite web |website=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]] |title=O'Hurley, Dermot |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ohurley-dermot-a6817 |publisher=Royal Irish Academy}}</ref> but from whence O'Hurley covertly travelled to and from Cavan to visit with some fellow priests whom he had known while living in [[Catholic Europe]].<ref name="Dermot O'Hurley"/>