Dead Can Dance singer and composer Brendan Perry lives in the vicinity of the town, as does musician and author Rodney Orpheus.
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His last posting was in Haiti, where he worked for three years as a senior member of staff; he was SASRSG to Hedi Annabi at the time of the earthquake of January 12, 2010, in which he and many of the UN mission lost their lives.
The first section, some 34 miles, of what became the Cavan and Leitrim Railway (C&LR), from Dromod to Belturbet was opened in October 1887.