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- Agricultural county of the Republic of
- Ireland, in the province of Ulster; area
- 1,890 sq km/730 sq mi; population (1986)
- 54,000. The river Erne divides it into a
- narrow, mostly low-lying peninsula, 30 km/20
- mi long, between Leitrim and Fermanagh, and
- an eastern section of wild and bare hill
- country. The soil is generally poor and the
- climate moist and cold. The chief towns are
- Cavan, the capital, population about 3,000;
- Kilmore, seat of Roman Catholic and
- Protestant bishoprics; and Virginia.
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