Walking through Cootehill , Cavan, Ireland

Cootehill, Cavan, Ireland
Cootehill is a market town and townland in County Cavan, Ireland. Cootehill was formerly part of the neighboring townland of Munnilly. Both townlands lie within the barony of Tullygarvey.
Cootehill was formally established as a market town in 1725 when Thomas Coote obtained a charter to hold markets and fairs; thereafter strong ties to the Irish linen industry were cultivated.
In County Cavan, the Coote family, who had intermarried with the Hill family, created the town of Cootehill in the early 1700s specifically as a linen-producing town, and by the end of the eighteenth century, it had become the major center for the linen trade in Ireland.