Patrick Kavanagh Trail

9. *Slieve Gullion View: Taking a slight detour off the Kavanagh route, this hill affords spectacular views of Slieve Gullion, fabled home of giant, Finn Mac Cool. To the west, one can see the heather-clad Lock-an-Lae hills at Cavant, and to the south and east stretches the legendary Plain of Muirtheimne, over which so many battles raged, including that for the famous Brown Bull of Cooley.

10. *Drumcattan Church: The townland of Drumcattan has many links with Kavanagh. It was to Campbell of Drumcattan that Patrick's father was apprenticed to learn the shoemaking trade. In later years, Kavanagh was to immortalise in his novel "THE GREEN FOOL" the sounds of Sunday worship from the chapel intermingling with the worship offered up outside in the ordinary language of the people, as Pat Jennings the pig killer took orders for his services, the day before the market in Carrickmacross.

11. Rocksavage Estate:
Before buying their own farm, the Kavanagh family rented land from the estate, and it was here Kavanagh's earliest poems were written. The remains of the orchard can be seen from the road: "We talked and our talk was a theme of kings, A theme for strings. He hunkered down In the shade of the orchard wall. O roses The old man dies in the young girl's frown."