Offaly: In the footsteps of O’Neill’s 1601 army

Slieve Bloom Way: Paul’s lane loop, Cadamstown, Co Offaly

BOTH this loop, and the Nature Walk, take us along an old coach road and then, via an old laneway and forestry tracks, to the weir on the Silver River south of Cadamstown. We return along the lovely riverbank to the start.

The lands around Cadamstown were originally in the ownership of the O’Flanagan clan of Cinel Arga but were granted to Adam, Viscount Loftus of Ely, during the plantation of Offaly in the 17th century and it is likely that the name Cadamstown was coined as a result.