Granard

Granard is a town within the north of County Longford, Ireland, and has a traceable history going lower back to AD 236. It is situated just south of the boundary among the watersheds of the Shannon and the Erne, at the point where the N55 country wide secondary street and the R194 nearby street meet. The river Shannon is likewise inside reach of the drainage place. The city has been a centre of population for the reason that Celtic times, in all likelihood because of its increased role providing a view over the surrounding nation-state. It is noted within the historical Irish epic, the Tain Bo Cuailgne, as being one of the places wherein Queen Medb and her navy stopped on their journey to take the Donn Cuailnge.

The name of the town is itself so historical as to be doubtful even in Irish; the eleventh-century writers of the Lebor na hUidre refer to it via a gloss as "Gránairud Tethba tuaiscirt .I. Granard indiu" . According to the Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick, Patrick appointed Guasacht, a son of his former master Milchú, as first bishop of Granard, but the diocese did no longer continue to exist as a separate entity. The surname Sheridan was first recorded in Granard within the 8th century.