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unusual facts about Lough Melvin



Máedóc of Ferns

He also founded monasteries at Drumlane, near Milltown in County Cavan, at Ferns in County Wexford (the main monastery), across the Irish Sea in Wales where he was under the monastic rule of Saint David, at Disert-Nairbre in County Waterford and finally in Rossinver in County Leitrim where, on Lough Melvin’s shore, he died on the 31 January, 632.


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Largydonnell

Nearby to Largydonnell Post Office at the hump-backed bridge, on a road to the right in Ahanlish are the ruins of an old forge where De Cuellar, where a survivor of the wreck of the Spanish Armada at Tullaghan spent some time before proceeding to MacClancy's Castle at Rosclogher in Lough Melvin where he remained for three months.