Ballinagh
At the the beginning of 18th century, Ballinagh grew up as a staging post on the Dublin to Sligo coach road. In 1803 the local landlord, Captain Fleming, built a stone tower on a nearby hill. It is still called Flemings folly. This is easily accessible and there is a fine view from it over the surrounding countryside.
BALLINAGH, a market-town, partly in the parish of BALLINTEMPLE, but chiefly in that of KILMORE, barony of CLONMAHON, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (S. W.) from Cavan town, on the road to Granard (Co. Longford), containing 702 inhabitants.
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In the early 17th century, the Scottish planters established the Arvagh area. It is told that John Brown, who was one of them, sold the land here for a horse! Earls of Gosford, the descendant of the buyer of the land, developed the town in the early 19th century. He then built Market House is still there. William Bleakley visited America at the age of 16. He was the harbinger of aviation who established record in the performance of aerobatic feat of looping the loop. 
In the early 17th century, William Bailie established Bailieborough. He was a planter from Ayrshire in Scotland. He built a castle beside a lake but nothing survives today, , to the west of Bailieborough there are forest trails through the estate. During the 1798 rising there was a battle at the Rebel Hill, which is a mile to the north-west of the town. Captain William Young bought the Bailieborough estate early in the 19th century. who had made a fortune in the East Indies. His son John was a member of parliament and governor general of Canada and New South Wales. The town has very close links with Canada; there is even a small region of Ontario called Bailieborough. In 1903 a co-operative was set up to market dairy products and this continues to bring prosperity to the town. 
The name stands for the mouth of Connalls ford. During a long war between the armies of Ulster and Connacht, a legendary warrior renowned school of classical studies at Tomregan near Ballyconnell. In the beginning of medieval ages there was A curiously carved head from the church there is currently in Ballyconnell parish church. Tn 1688 Ballyconnell was founded and very soon grew into a thriving town on the coach route to the spas at Swanlinbar. The canal linking the Shannon and Erne via Ballyconnell was opened In 1856. Totaly about eight boats used it. Since it was re-opened for non-commercial boating it has gained its new vitality. In Irish Gaelic football Ballyconnell has a special place. In 1885 The club was founded and here was the first in Ulster and is still called Ballyconnell First Ulsters. The Ballyconnell area plenty of sites of archaeological importance, including the promontory fort at Ballyhugh, three miles east and Kllycluggin, four miles south-west, where the decorated Killycluggin Stone was found.
Ballyjamesduff the name probably may comes from the Irish B�l atha a seiscinn duibh, or the mouth of the ford of the black marsh. On the old Dublin to Cavan road, it grew up as a coaching stop. Its long and wide main street dates back to that time. In 1820 the route of the road was changed. after that Ballyjamesduff became something of a quiet backwater. It still attracted visitors, including a young engineer called Percy French who was working in Cavan. His friends challenged him to write a song about the place. “Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff.” wast the result of that challenge. Thus the town got its place on the map of the musical world. Paddy Reilly is reputed to have been one of Percy Frenchs favourite jarvies or horse drivers in the area. From 1996 the town has been the location of Cavans County Museum . The museum is housed in a convent built in the early 1880s for the Poor Clare Order of nuns. Two miles west of Ballyjamesduff is Derrylea. It was the birthplace of Marcus Daly (1840-1900), the Copper king of Montana. Montana was one of the richest men in the United States at the time of his death.