Cavan Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Cavan, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Cavan’s landscape of small lakes and rolling drumlin hills shaped both the farms and the family lines of the people who lived here. It’s a border county, part of Ulster but within the Republic, and its parish records reflect centuries of Gaelic families, O’Reillys chief among them, alongside later Planter settlement. For many Irish-American and Irish-Australian families tracing roots here, Cavan’s scattered lakeside townlands can be genuinely difficult to pin down from records alone, since the same surnames often repeat across neighbouring parishes.
That’s where local knowledge becomes essential. We work from the civil parish on your family’s records back to the actual church congregation your ancestors attended, then to the specific graveyard and townland, cross-referencing details like neighbouring family names to confirm we have the right location rather than a similarly-named one two parishes over. Cavan town itself, with its long association with the O’Reilly family, is often a natural starting point before we head out into the surrounding countryside.
A genealogy tour of Cavan takes you past the small lakes and quiet laneways that gave this county its character, ending, where records allow, at the very site of your family’s home, a rewarding and often emotional way to reconnect with a place your ancestors left generations ago.
- Cavan has 8 Baronies
- Cavan has 36 Civil Parishes
- Cavan has 93 Electoral Divisions
- Cavan has 1980 Townlands
- Cavan has 62 sub townlands
County Cavan is in the province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is based on the historic Gaelic territory of East Breffny (Bréifne). Cavan County has a population of 76,092 according to the 2016 census.
The castle of Cloughoughter is located in the historic Kingdom of Breifne. Prior to the construction of the castle, the area may have been a crannog. In the latter part of the 12th century, it was under the control of the O’Rourkes, but it seems to have come into the hands of the Anglo-Norman William Gorm de Lacy. While the exact date construction began is unknown, it is estimated to have started in the first quarter of the 13th century. The County borders Counties Monaghan and Meath. (see our 9000 Years Historical County Meath Day Tour)
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – O’Reilly, Brady
- Norman-None
- Scottish -None
- Viking – None
County Cavan – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Irelands Ancient East
- Cavan County Museum and Genealogy records
- Dun A Ri forest Park
- Cavan Burren Park
- Cavan Lake district
- Farnham estate
- Deer Park Forest
- Cloughoughter Castle
- Killeshandra Looped Tour
- Killykeen Forset park
Frequently Asked Questions
My Cavan ancestors share a surname with several other families in the area, can you still find the right one?
Yes, this is common in Cavan. We cross-reference neighbouring families, townland details and church records to confirm we’ve identified your specific family line, not just a similarly named one.
Are Cavan's rural graveyards accessible for visiting?
Most are, though some older lakeside graveyards require a short walk. We check accessibility in advance and plan the route accordingly.
Can a Cavan tour be combined with a neighbouring county like Monaghan or Leitrim?
Absolutely, many families researched in Cavan have branches just across the county border, and we can build a combined itinerary.
