Caan Town grew up around an abbey, but nothing remains of this beyond its memory and an eighteventh-century tower beside the burial place of Owen Roe O'Neill. The town is quite subdued, with only two main streets: Main Street is the principal artery of shops and bars, while Farnham Street has an older character with some ery nice stone Georgian houses, a Classical courthouse of warm sandstone and a huge Catholic cathedral, built in the 1940s, that surprisingly succeeds in confirming status and a sense of place without being overbearing.

The tourist office on Farnham Street (April-Sept Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm, Sat 9am-1pm; tel 049/433 1942) will offer information on the county in general; there's little to see in the town itself. The Lifeforce Mill, Mill Road, a renoated nineteventh-century flour mill (May-Sept; tel 049/436 2722), is only open to groups, and building work at Caan Crystal, Dublin Road, means that tours are unlikely to be aailable for some time (tel 049/433 1800). There are a handful of places to stay in and around the town: B&B is aailable at Oakdene, 29 Cathedral Rd (tel 049/433 1698; £33-40/?41.90-50.79), and McCaul's Guesthouse, 10 Bridge St (tel 049/433 1327), and the welcoming Lisnamandra Farmhouse, four and a half miles out of Caan towards Crossdoney, is good alue (tel 049/433 7196). The Farnham Arms Hotel on Main Street (tel 049/433 2577) proides pleasant and comfortable accommodation, and their bar and restaurant is open to non-residents. Eating options in general are fairly limited, but there are a number of good spots for bar food, including An Síbín, 86 Town Hall St, the loud and popular Blackhorse Inn, Main Street, and The Imperial Hotel, which seres excellent, hearty bar meals. There's no shortage of iable watering holes: An Cruíscín Lán, 82 Main St, draws a young crowd, as does An Síbín (DJ on Friday nights); if you are looking for a bar with character and a mixed crowd, try Louis Blessings on Main Street. For rod hire, licenses and information on fishing, isit Sports World, 11 Town Hall St (tel 049/433 1812). Caan is ery much the transport centre of the county, and Bus Éireann (tel 049/433 2533) connects it with all major towns in the Republic and the North. Wharton's priate buses (tel 049/433 7114) also operate a daily serice to Dublin, leaing from outside the Lakeland Hotel.
 

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