Clontycarnaghan

N87 road at Clontycarnaghan townland, Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

Clontycarnaghan (from Irish: Cluainte Chearnacháin meaning 'Kernaghan’s Meadows') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw.

Geography

Clontycarnaghan is bounded on the north by Mullanacre Upper townland in Tomregan parish, on the west by Corneen and Munlough North townlands, on the south by Urhannagh and Bofealan townlands and on the east by Sralahan and Moher townlands in Tomregan parish. Its chief geographical features are Slieve Rushen mountain on whose southern slope it lies, the Crooked River, waterfalls, mountain bogs, forestry plantations, spring wells and dug wells. It forms part of the Slieve Rushen Bog Natural Heritage Area

Clontycarnaghan is traversed by the national secondary N87 road (Ireland), minor roads and rural lanes.

The townland covers 371 statute acres.[1]

History

Until the 19th century the modern townland of Corneen formed a sub-division of Clontycarnaghan.

The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Cloncarnagh.[2]

The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as Carnagh.[3]

William Petty's 1685 map depicts it as Carnagh.

In the Hearth Money Rolls of 1662 there were two people paying the Hearth Tax in- Clunticarnagh- William Mathers and Walter Rice.

A grant dated 3 November 1666 was made by King Charles II of England to Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet which included, inter alia, the lands of Clantacannagh. By grant dated 11 September 1670 from King Charles II of England to said Sir Tristram Beresford, the said lands of Clantacannagh were included in the creation of a new Manor of Beresford.

The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list sixteen tithepayers in the townland.[4]

Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists twenty four landholders in the townland.[5]

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are sixteen families listed in the townland, [6] and in the 1911 census of Ireland, there are seventeen families listed in the townland.[7]

Antiquities

The only structures of historical interest in the townland seem to be footsticks and footbridges over the Crooked River.

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Coordinates: 54°04′31″N 7°48′37″W / 54.07514°N 7.810271°W / 54.07514; -7.810271

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