Cornagunleog

Road at Cornagunleog townland, Templeport, County Cavan, heading west.

'Cornagunleog (from Irish: Cor na gCoinnleóg meaning 'The Round Hill of the Crop Stubbles) 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

Cornagunleog is bounded on the north by Stranadarragh townland, on the west by Ballymagirril and Greagh townlands, on the south by Knocks and Glebe townlands in County Leitrim and on the east by Boley townland. Its chief geographical features are a stream, a wood and dug wells.

Cornagunleog is traversed by minor roads and rural lanes.

The townland covers 183 statute acres.[1]

History

Until the late 18th century Cornagunleog formed part of the modern townland of Stranadarragh so its history is the same until then.

The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list sixteen tithepayers in the townland.[2][3]

Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists twelve landholders in the townland.[4]

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are twelve families listed in the townland, [5] and in the 1911 census of Ireland, there are only eleven families listed in the townland.[6]

Antiquities

The chief structures of historical interest in the townland are

  1. Two earthen ring-forts[7] Ringfort number 421 is a substantial size because it sits on the Cavan-Leitrim border and on the old southern border of the McGovern Clan lands, so it would have been a fortified outpost in medieval times.
  2. A footbridge over the stream

References

  1. ↑ "IreAtlas". Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "The Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-37". titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-37". titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Griffith's Valuation". askaboutireland.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Site numbers 421 and 422 in “Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan”, Patrick O’Donovan, 1995

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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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