Aghavoher () is small a

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in the

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Tomregan Tomregan (, ) is a civil parish in the ancient barony of Tullyhaw. The parish straddles the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The largest population centre in the parish is Ballyconnell, County Cavan. The total are ...

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. It is approximately in area and lies in the former barony of

Loughtee Lower Loughtee Lower (), or Lower Loughtee, is a barony in County Cavan, Ireland. Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded ...

Geography

Aghavoher is bounded on the north by Cranaghan townland, on the west by

Clifton, County Cavan Clifton is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Loughtee Lower, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Etymology The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename ''Clochán'' which means "A small beehive-shaped st ...

, Mullynagolman and Carrigan townlands, on the south by Breandrum, Tullyhunco townland and on the east by Greaghrahan and Carn townlands. Its chief geographical features are Aghavoher Lough and the

Rag River The Rag River is a river in County Cavan, Ireland. It rises in Mullaghdoo Lough, in the townland of Aghnacreevy, parish of Kildallan, and flows in a north-easterly direction through the lakes of Clonty Lough, Togher Lough, Lough Rud, Aghavoher ...

on its northern boundary and a small hill which rises to 306 feet above sea level. Aghavoher is traversed by the Kildallan road and Carrigan lane. The townland covers 228 statute acres including eleven acres of water. The sub-divisions of the townland are Sandville and Sandybrook.

History

The earliest surviving spelling of the townland name is in a printed list of Cavan townlands dated 1790 where it is spelled ''Aughiogher''. Ambrose Leet's 1814 Directory spells the name as ''Augavoher'' with the resident being ''Mr. Patterson''. Centuries before that the townland formed part of the

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in pre-Christian times. Aghavoher formed part of the termon lands belonging to

Roman Catholic Church which were granted to the

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in 1610 as part of the

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. By a lease dated 6 April 1612 the said bishop granted the lands to

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and Sir

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. On 17 July 1639 the bishop re-granted the lands to

Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan (c. March 1600 – 25 June 1660) was an Anglo-Irish Cavalier, Royalist soldier and peer. Lambart was the son of Oliver Lambart, 1st Baron Lambart and Hester Fleetwood. He served as the Member of Parliament fo ...

. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland: Profet, McKiernan, Stevens, Lee, Murrey, Berry, Patterson. A deed dated 23 February 1835 now in the Cavan Archives Service (ref P017/0043) is described as: The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland: The Aghavoher Valuation Office Field books are available for December 1838.

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of 1857 lists the landlords of the townland as Jones and Moore and the tenants as Berry, Winslow and Kellett.

Census

In the

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, there are six families listed in the townland. In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are five families listed in the townland.

Antiquities

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ring-barrow on the border with Clifton;Site number 94, page 20, Aghavoher townland, in "Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan", Patrick O’Donovan, 1995, where it is described as- ''Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Sited on the S slope of a steep hill. Raised circular area (int. diam. 11.8m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with a wide, deep internal fosse. The internal area is greatly disturbed by a modern field boundary running NNW-SSE which divides the site into two roughly equal portions. Original entrance not recognisable''. # A medieval crannóg in Aghavoher Lough;Site number 1467, page 175, Aghavoher townland, in "Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan", Patrick O’Donovan, 1995, where it is described as- ''Small circular island (diam. c. 20m) in Aghavoher Lough, c. 1 km from the shoreline marked on all OS eds. Davies recorded that it was apparently a log platform and detailed finds from the site including several animal bones and shells, hones, two pieces of quern, a block of iron, a jug handle and c. twenty sherds of unglazed crannóg pottery from which seven pots were identified. He noted the former presence of a 19th-century stone cottage on the island and contemporary glazed sherds and pieces of an iron cauldron. It was suggested that the crannóg was occupied principally in the 16th century''. # Sandville House erected c.1850;

References

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