Mountnugent

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Village in County Cavan, Ireland

title: "Mountnugent" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["towns-and-villages-in-county-cavan", "townlands-of-county-cavan"] description: "Village in County Cavan, Ireland" topic_path: "general/towns-and-villages-in-county-cavan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountnugent" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in County Cavan, Ireland ::

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History

The village's more recent name of Mountnugent comes from a local branch of the Nugent family, originally an Anglo-Norman family who were cousins of Hugh de Lacy and large landowners in Meath, Cavan and Westmeath. Although the village is in County Cavan, the Roman Catholic parish of Mountnugent (or Kilbride) is in the Diocese of Meath. In the Church of Ireland, Mountnugent, or Kilbride Castlecor, is part of the parish of Castlepollard in the diocese of Meath and Kildare.

The village is in the Cavan–Monaghan constituency in the electoral division of Kilbride. For planning applications or land registration purposes, it is in the barony of Clanmahon.

While the river that the village is located on, with its mid-18th century bridge, is sometimes referred to as the Inny, most sources name a river 3 kilometres to the southwest forming the boundary of Meath and Cavan near Ross Castle as the River Inny, rising near Oldcastle, and the river that flows through the village as the Mountnugent Stream, rising near Ballyjamesduff.

During the launch of Ireland's new postcode system, Eircode, residents were surprised that Mountnugent was counted as part of County Meath, and that the Irish name was now a literal translation of the English name - "Sliabh an Nuinseannaigh".

Facilities

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It has one public house (The Bridge Inn), one grocery shop (Smiths), one fuel station (Smiths), one vehicle repair shop (Smiths), two churches (Roman Catholic: St Bridget's, built c. 1820; Church of Ireland: St Bride's, built 1804) and one primary school. There is a hairdresser's. There is a hotel just outside the village on the shores of Lough Sheelin - Crover House Hotel. An equestrian centre is located three kilometres outside the village. The primary school (Scoil Bhríde) has about 120 children and the village population, including neighbouring townlands, is around 500.

Sport

Fishing is prominent in the area. Lough Sheelin, a lake famous for its trout fishing, is just outside Mountnugent. Trout stocks began to decrease in the early 1970s as pollution from various sources including agriculture entered the lake. A marked resurgence of mayfly in recent years has been noted.

A notable change since the decline of the trout population has been the increase in the populations of pike and perch, and the subsequent increase in anglers specialising in these species. Mountnugent has a GAA club.

Transport

Bus Éireann route 187 serves Mountnugent seven days a week. It provides transport to the neighbouring towns and villages of Oldcastle, Ballyjamesduff, Virginia and Kells. There are two journeys from Mountnugent and three journeys to it each weekday.

References

References

  1. "A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis (1837)".
  2. "Droichead Uí Dhálaigh/Mount Nugent".
  3. "Nugent Family History and Genealogy". Allen L. Nugent.
  4. "Nugents of Farrenconnell". Myles Stoney.
  5. "Nugent of Farren Connell Papers". Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
  6. "Information: Dioceses and parishes.".
  7. "Historic 25-inch Map".
  8. "Mountnugent, County Cavan". Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
  9. "Inny Water Management Unit Action Plan".
  10. (18 May 1995). "Volume 453: Ballyjamesduff (Cavan) Sewerage Scheme".
  11. "Lough Sheelin and its catchment Water Quality Status and Nutrient Loadings 1998-2005". Inland Fisheries Ireland.
  12. "Lough Sheelin Co. Cavan".
  13. [http://www.berndlog.com/2015/07/how-to-waste-27-million-euros "How to Waste 27 Million Euros"] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-07-13 , berndlog.com, July 2015; accessed 5 October 2015.)
  14. "St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, Mountnugent, County Cavan". Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
  15. "St Bride's Church of Ireland Church, Mountnugent, County Cavan". Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
  16. "Crover House Hotel".
  17. "Scoil Bhríde".
  18. (11 November 1987). "Parliamentary Debates: Seanad Éireann - Volume 117". Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.
  19. "Lough Sheelin – Nutrient Loadings 1998-2005". The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board.
  20. "Lough Sheelin". Inland Fisheries Ireland.
  21. "Lough Sheelin: Sampling Fish for the Water Framework Directive: Lakes 2008". The Central and Regional Fisheries Boards.
  22. "Mountnugent GAA notes". Hoganstand.com.
  23. [http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1334740995-187.pdf Bus Éireann Route 187] {{webarchive. link. (2012-10-25 , buseireann.ie; accessed 5 October 2015.)

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