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Cullyleenan ( ga, Coill Uí Lionáin, ) 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 Parish of
Tomregan Tomregan ( ga, Tuaim Dreagain, ) is a civil parish in the ancient barony of Tullyhaw. The parish straddles the international border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The largest population centre in the parish is Ballyconn ...
, 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 ...
,
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 ...
,
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Etymology

The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename 'Coill Uí Lionáin' which means "O’Lenan’s Wood", which possibly belonged to a member of the Uí Lionán family who were a bardic family from County
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. Alternative meanings that have been suggested are 'Wood of the Fishing-bank' or ''Coill an Líonáin'' meaning 'The Wood of the Gorge'. The 1609
Ulster Plantation The Plantation of Ulster ( gle, Plandáil Uladh; Ulster-Scots: ''Plantin o Ulstèr'') was the organised colonisation ('' plantation'') of Ulstera province of Irelandby people from Great Britain during the reign of King James I. Most of the set ...
map spells the name as ''Colelenan''. A 1610 grant spells it ''Cowlynan''. A 1630 Inquisition spells it ''Cowlynan''. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells it as ''Coolelenan'' and the 1659
Down Survey The Down Survey was a cadastral survey of Ireland, carried out by English scientist, William Petty, in 1655 and 1656. The survey was apparently called the "Down Survey" by Petty, either because the results were set down in maps or because the s ...
map spells it as ''Colelolan''. A 1666 grant spells it ''Coolonenan alias Colelonan''.
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's 1685 map spells it as ''Cololan''. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as ''Cullelinan''.


Geography

It is bounded on the north by
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townland, on the west by
Derryginny Derryginny is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland. Etymology The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename "Doire Goinimhe" which means the 'Oakwood of the Sand', which possibly der ...
townland, on the south by Agharaskilly townland and on the east by Mullaghduff townland. Its chief geographical features are the Shannon-Erne Waterway which flows north along its western boundary and a central drumlin hill which rises over 200 feet above sea level. Cullyleenan is traversed by Bridge Street, the N87 road (Ireland), the Agharaskilly road, the Chapel Road and by the disused Cavan & Leitrim Railway. The townland covers 62 statute acres, including two acres of water.


History

The earliest surviving reference to the townland is in an account of the death of the Ulster hero
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, who is killed c.1 AD when he attempts to cross the ford called ''Ath na Mianna'' over the Woodford River to the opposite townland of Derryginny. In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 23 June 1610, along with other lands, King James VI and I granted one poll of ''Cowlynan'' to Hugh Culme, esquire, as part of the Manor of Calva. Culme then surrendered his interest in Cullyleenan to Walter Talbot of Ballyconnell. Walter Talbot died on 26 June 1625 at Ballyconnell and his son James Talbot succeeded to the Cullyleenan lands aged just 10 years. An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 20 September 1630 stated that Walter Talbot's lands included one poll in ''Cowlynan''. James Talbot married Helen Calvert, the daughter of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of Maryland, USA, in 1635 and had a son Colonel George Talbot who owned an estate in Cecil County, Maryland which he named Ballyconnell in honour of his native town in Cavan. George Talbot was appointed Surveyor-General of Maryland in 1683. In the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, James Talbot's estate in Ballyconnell was confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 because he was a Catholic and he was granted an estate in 1655 at Castle Rubey, County Roscommon instead. He died in 1687. By 1652 the Irish rebels in the Ballyconnell area had been defeated and the area was put under the control of the Cromwellian captain Thomas Gwyllym. He was a native of Glenavy, County Antrim where his father, Rev. Meredith Gwyllym, was vicar of the parishes of Glenavy, Camlin, Tullyrusk, Ballinderry & Magheragall from 1622 until sometime after 1634. Gwyllym's name first appears in the area as the owner of the Ballyconnell estate in the 1652 Commonwealth Survey, also as a Cavan Commissioner in the 1660 Hearth Money Ordinances and in the 1664 Hearth Money Rolls he has five hearths in Ballyconnell. After the restoration of King Charles II to the throne in 1660, James Talbot tried to have the Ballyconnell estate restored to him but a final grant was made to Thomas Gwyllym in August 1666, which included 66 acres-16 perches of profitable land and 252 acres-1 rood of unprofitable land in ''Coolonenan alias Colelonan''. Thomas Gwyllym died in 1681 and his son Colonel Meredith Gwyllym inherited the Ballyconnell estate, including Cullyleenan. Colonel Meredith Gwyllym died in 1711 and the Ballyconnell estate passed to his eldest son, Meredith Gwyllym. A deed dated 2 May 1724 by the aforesaid Meredith Gwyllym includes the townland as ''Coolonenan alias Colenonan''. The Gwyllym estate was sold for £8,000 in 1724 to Colonel
Alexander Montgomery (1686–1729) Colonel Alexander Montgomery (1686 – 19 December 1729) was an Irish soldier and politician. Montgomery, of the Scots Greys cavalry, lived in Convoy House, Convoy, County Donegal, Ireland. He was born into an Ulster Scots gentry family in 1686 ...
of Convoy House,
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, M.P. for Donegal Borough 1725 to 1727 & for Donegal County 1727 to 1729. A lease dated 14 May 1728 by the aforesaid Alexander Montgomery included ''Colenonan alias Coolenan''. Montgomery died in 1729 and left the Ballyconnell estate to his nephew George Leslie, who then assumed the name of George Leslie Montgomery. George Leslie Montgomery was M.P. for Strabane,
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from 1765 to 1768 and for County Cavan from 1770 to 1787, when he died and left the Ballyconnell estate to his son George Montgomery, whose estate was administered by the
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as he was a
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. George Montgomery died in 1841 and his estate went to his Enery cousins of
Bawnboy Bawnboy () is a small village and townland in a valley at the foot of Slieve Rushen, between Ballyconnell and Swanlinbar, in County Cavan, Ireland. A synod of the Roman Catholic Provincial Council of Armagh was held in Owengallees, Baunbuidhe ...
. In 1856 they sold the estate to take advantage of its increased value owing to the opening of the Woodford Canal through the town in the same year. The estate was split up amongst different purchasers. In the Fermanagh Poll of Electors 1788 there was one Cullyleenan resident, John Graham, who was entitled to vote as he owned land in Drumany Beg townland in Kinawley parish. In the 1825 Registry of Freeholders for County Cavan there was one freeholder registered in ''Cullilenon''- John Reilly. He was a
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holding a lease for lives from his landlord, the Montgomery Estat

He also appears in the 1827 Tithe Books below. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland- Keon, Grimes, Wynne, Clark, McLaughlin, Sturdy, Hanna, Donahy, Montgomery, Answell, Reilly, Brady, Sheridan, McGraugh, Benison, Gallagher, Murdy, Enery. In 1829 a
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was kept in the townland, funded by the Hibernian Sunday School Society. The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- ''Coill Uí Lionáin, 'O'Lenen's wood'. South of Ballyconnell. Property of Montgomery. Rent £2 per arable acre. 10 acres of bog and 8 acres of pasture, the rest is arable land. It contains a bit of the town of Ballyconnell, the Roman Catholic church and several good roads.'' The Cullyleenan Valuation Office books are available for 1840.
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of 1857 lists the landlords of the townland as Kane, Webb and Wilson and the tenants as Webb, McDermott, Donohoe, Rourke, Brady, Reilly, Maguire, McGaghran, Kelly, Flynn, Sullivan, Kane, Griffin, Roe, Gallaher, Roman Catholic Chapel, Gileese, Benson, Thompson and Wilson. Further information and a detailed map showing the location of each holding can be seen online. In the
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Folklore Collection, a story by Miss Yeates, The Courthouse, Ballyconnell in 1938 relates a ghost story that occurred on Daisy Hill in Cullyleenan.


Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are thirteen families listed in the townland. In the
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, there are fourteen families listed in the townland. The high population is because part of the town of
Ballyconnell Ballyconnell () is a town in County Cavan, Ireland. It is situated on the N87 national secondary road at the junction of four townlands: Annagh, Cullyleenan, Doon (Tomregan) and Derryginny in the parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw. ...
is situate in Cullyleenan.


Antiquities

# An early-medieval earthen ringfort (Site number 489, page 70, Cullyleenan townland, in "Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan", Patrick O’Donovan, 1995, where it is described as- ''Raised circular area (int. dims. 48m NW-SE; 46.1m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse. Perimeter has been destroyed from N-NE where a modern dwelling abuts the site. Original entrance not recognisable''.) # Our Lady of Lourdes R.C. Church (opened on 25 August 196
Geograph:: Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church,... (C) Kenneth Allen
# Ballyconnell New School (opened September 1968), # The disused St.Brigid's Roman Catholic church and graveyard (erected in 1843 on the site of a Mass-house erected c.1780
Geograph:: RC Church at Mullaghduff (C) Kenneth Allen
# The Roman Catholic Parochial House (erected c.1875) # The Interdenominational graveyard (opened in 1980's) # The former Railway Station (opened 24 October 1887, finally closed on 1 April 1959)
Geograph:: Ballyconnell former railway station (C) Kenneth Allen
# Ballyconnell Bridge which was erected in the 1830s
Geograph:: Bridge across the Woodford canal (C) Kenneth Allen
# The
Cavan and Leitrim Railway The Cavan & Leitrim Railway was a narrow gauge railway in the counties of Leitrim and Cavan in northwest Ireland, which ran from 1887 until 1959. Unusually for Ireland, this narrow gauge line survived on coal traffic, from the mine at Arigna ...
Red Bridge (erected in 1887) # Two former buildings were the Star Plastics factory (opened in 1962) and Ballyconnell Creamery (opened 1902, closed 1947). # There was a Hedge School in the townland in 1826. The headmaster was a Protestant, James Clarke. It was described as a lime and stone building valued at £6. There were 68 pupils, 38 boys and 30 girls, of whom 39 were Roman Catholic, 29 were Church of Ireland and one Presbyterian.


References


External links


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