School: Tullybrack
- Location:
- Tullybrack, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Maguire
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“Maguire's Chair is the name given to a great rock & rock formation...”
Maguires' Chair is the name given to a great rock and rock formation along the road which leads from Bawnboy to Glengevlin. It is in the townland of Altachullen about four perch from where the road from Swanlinbar joins the main road.
There is an old tradition about how it got its name.
This is the story. Once when there was a war on between the McGovern and Maguire clans the Maguire marched with his men along the mountains and called a halt at this place.
The army had lunch there, the clansmen sat on the rocks all around while the Maguire sat on ''the chair'' and since then it has been called Maguire's chair(continues on next page)