Coppanaghbane, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic ‘Copanach Bán’ meaning ''The White Place covered with Dock-leaves'' (probably referring to the white limestone soil), is a

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic orig ...

in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

Templeport Templeport () is a civil parish in the barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland. The chief towns in the parish are Bawnboy and Ballymagauran. The large Roman Catholic parish of Templeport containing 42,172 statute acres was split up in the 18 ...

County Cavan County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is based on the historic Gaelic territory of East Breffny (''Bréifn ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of

Glangevlin Glangevlin () is a village in the northwest of County Cavan, Ireland. It is in the townlands of Gub (Glangevlin) and Tullytiernan, at the junction of the R200 and R207 regional roads. It is surrounded by the Cuilcagh Mountains and borders ...

and barony of

Tullyhaw Tullyhaw ( ga, Teallach Eathach) (which means 'The Territory of Eochaidh', an ancestor of the McGoverns, who lived ) is a Barony in County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. The area has been in constant occupation since pre-4000 BC. Locat ...

Geography

Coppanaghbane is bounded on the north by Corleckagh Upper and

Gowlat Gowlat, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, 'Gabhla', meaning ''The Forks'' (of the Rivers), is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin and barony of Tullyhaw. Geograph ...

townlands, on the east by

Curraghvah Curraghvah, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, either ‘Currach Bheathach’, meaning ''The Moor of the Birches'', or ‘Currach a’ Mhagh’, meaning ''The Moor of the Plain'', or ‘Currach Mheádh’ meaning ''The Moor of the Spicy Mead Drink' ...

townland, on the west by Tullantintin townland and on the south by Coppanaghmore townland. Its chief geographical features are Slievenakilla Mountain (on which northern side it lies), mountain streams, waterfalls, forestry plantations and gravel pits. The townland is traversed by the regional R200 road (Ireland), minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 227 statute acres.

History

In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor soils. It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land. By 1720 Morley Saunders, owned the land. A deed dated 28 July 1720 between Morley Saunders and Richard Hassard spells the name as ''Caponagh'' and states the tenant of the townland was Tiernan Dolan. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as ''Cappanagh''. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list ten tithepayers in the townland. The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- ''The soil is a blue gravelly nature...there is plenty of limestone but it is not quarried nor used for any purpose whatever.'' The Coppanaghbane Valuation Office Field books are available for July 1839.

Griffith's Valuation Griffith's Valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868. Griffith's background Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examinat ...

of 1857 lists nine landholders in the townland. In the 19th century the landlords of Coppanaghbane were the Annesley and Hassard Estates.

Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are nine families listed in the townland. In the

1911 census of Ireland The 1911 Census of Ireland was the last census that covered the whole island of Ireland. Censuses were taken at ten-year intervals from 1821 onwards, but the 1921 census was cancelled due to the Irish War of Independence. The original records o ...

, there are six families listed in the townland.http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Derrylahan/Coppanaghbane/ ''Census of Ireland 1911''

Antiquities

# A stone sweathouse. The 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Site no. 1859) describes it as- ''Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Situated on a riverbank. Partly built into a hillside. Small beehive-shaped, circular (int. diam. 1.7m; H c. 2m), drystone-built structure roofed internally with small flat slabs. Low lintelled entrance at NE (H 0.65m; Wth 0.45m). Richardson (1939, 33-4) recorded 'two flues on the left of the door'.'' ''Sweathouses between Blacklion and Dowra, County Cavan'', by P. Richardson, in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Third Series, Vol. 2 (1939), pp. 33–34.

References

External links

The IreAtlas Townland Data Base
{{County Cavan Townlands of County Cavan