Qualla: County Cavan https://qualla.com/county-cavan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Cavan https://qualla.com/county-cavan County Cavan: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-cavan/ Cavan is called the Lakeland County because, by tradition, it contains 365 lakes — one for every day of the year. The exact count depends on what you call a lake, but the principle is undeniable: this is a landscape built by ice, scraped and smoothed and dropped by the last glaciation into a maze of small loughs threaded between low rounded hills called drumlins. From above, the county looks like a green and silver fingerprint. The poet Patrick Kavanagh, who knew this country well from across the Monaghan border, called the drumlins "a stony grey soil that fed the gritty roots / Of the rushes." The view from a bicycle, or from a small plane on a clear day, is one of the most distinctive sights in Ireland.

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