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Annagh

Belturbet

"Belturbet, an incorporated market and post-town, partly in the parish of Drumlane, but chiefly in that of Annagh, barony of lower Loughtee, county of Cavan and province of Ulster, twelve miles from Cavan and sixty seven from Dublin; containing 2026 inhabitants. It is pleasantly situated on the river Erne, on the road from Cavan to Ballyconnell and owes its origin to the Lanesborough family whose patronage has also contributed materially to its prosperity."
[From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

Cemeteries

• Belturbet Church, Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, , v.7, 1907-08, p.5
  • Near to this stone lies the Body of Bedell Howard Stanford Esqr, Who departed this life the 11th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1776, and in the 56th year of his age. He was a man of virtue and integrity - A steady friend and tender husband. This monument was Erected by Elizabeth Stanford, Relict of the deceased, being the only remaining proff she could give of her grateful respect to his Memory.

History

• Belturbet.org
• Belturbet in 1846
• Crowe, C. Sister, The Sisters of Mercy Kilmore Ireland 1868-1994, Belturbet, Sisters of Mercy, 1994.

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Land and Property

• Auction Poster. Estate of the executors and trustees of the will of Henry Moutray Anketel-Jones, deceased. Particulars & conditions of sale by auction on Thursday, 13th August, 1903, by David H. Crawford, Auctioneer, at the Court-House, Belturbet, at the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon, of the above estate in 3 lots ...
  National Library of Ireland

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Maps

• 1777 Coaching Route
• Town

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Military Records

• Snodaigh, P.O. Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995
  • Belturbet Infantry - 1780, 1783, 1784
  • Belturbet Company, Belturbet Volunteers, Belturbet

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Names, Personal

• Swanzy, H. B. The family of Nixon of Nixon Hall, Co. Fermanagh and Nixon Lodge, Co. Cavan, Dublin, Thom, 1898. NLI GO 514

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Newspapers

• The Connaught Journal, July 2, 1840
  • MARRIED - At St. George's Church, by the Rev. John Gregg, John Price Blake, Esq., Captain 47th Regt., second son of the late Sir John Blake, Bart., Menlo' Castle, Galway, to Frances, eldest daughter of John Drope M'Illtree, Esq., of Belturbet, County Cavan.

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Probate

• Will of Francis Neville of Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Collector of the Revenue in the district of Cavan, 1726. Part of the Verner Wingfield Papers (D/2538)

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[Last updated: 22 January 2002 - Colin Ferguson ]