Is this the oldest tree in county cavan

Could this Kilmore sycamore, reportedly planted in 1632, be Cavan’s oldest tree? Winston Heaslip reckons it could be. 

Given that girth is an indicator of age in trees, this rotund specimen, measuring some seven metres around its waist, surely is ancient. Walking heal-to-toe, and with a hand on its bark of crocodile scales, it took the Celt 41-steps to circle the tree’s protruding root structure.
During a recent reporting assignment in Crossdoney the Celt stumbled into Winston, the sexton of Kilmore Cathedral. He was painting the gate of the church grounds where stands the mighty tree - well, half of it anyway.
Its enormous trunk, originally dissected into two muscular limbs. Sadly the wind claimed the limb on the church side some “20-30 years ago” to Winston’s reckoning, and the break has left a menacing dark maw. Peering into the trunk reveals a cavernous hollow many feet deep, into which people with excessive time on their hands have dumped a steel drum. Such mischief doesn’t detract from the tree’s majesty.
According to Winston the wood from the fallen limb was put to good use. Wood turners made pieces of occasional furniture like table lamps, while the PP of Ballinagh had “a lovely big cross” crafted with the bark retained on the sides, for Trinity Chapel.
Given who planted the tree, Winston notes that some of the wood was carved into a particularly appropriate artefact.
“A bishop’s crozier was made out of it about two years ago for Bishop Ferran [Glenfield].” Winston explains that the tree was planted almost four centuries ago by Bishop William Bedell, who of course was famed for making the first Gaeilge translation of the Old Testament. English born, he was appointed Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1629.
“He spoke seven languages when he came here, and everybody here at that time spoke Irish, so he learned Irish and he had the Old Testament translated into Irish,” explains Winston. According to Wikipedia, it seems the protestant rector of Templeport parish, the Rev. Muircheartach ” Cionga did much of the heavy lifting in translating. “He [Bedell] never got to see the bible printed,” says Winston wistfully. “He died in 1642 and the bible wasn’t finished until 1685.”
The cause of Bedell’s demise is also worth noting - during the Confederate Wars of 1641 no less a figure than Owen Roe O’Neill held the bishop captive in Clogh Oughter for many wintry weeks. He was released under a prisoner exchange but never recovered from the ordeal and passed away the following February.
Now the bishop lies in a tomb in the old Kilmore cemetery, where autumnal leaves gather from the sycamore he planted nearby. Winston declines to hazard a guess of whether it’s the oldest tree in Ireland, but speculates: “It’s probably the oldest tree in county Cavan anyway”. It seems to have become a bit of a tourist attraction, as according to Winston “a sight of people come to see it, and have group photographs around it”.