Eshveagh, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, either ‘Ais Bheathach’, meaning ''The Marsh of the Birches'', or ‘Éis Bheathach’, meaning ''The Hill of the Birches'', or ‘Eas Bheathach’, meaning ''The Waterfall of the Birches'' 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

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of Kinawley,

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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. 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. Lane, Eshveagh (geograph 3585964)

Geography

Eshveagh is bounded on the north by Legglass townland, on the west by Gub (Glangevlin), Mully Upper and Tullytiernan townlands, on the south by Ardvagh townland and on the east by Killykeeghan, Tromogagh and Tullycrafton townlands. Its chief geographical features are Cuilcagh Mountain, on whose western slope it lies, Eshveagh Lough, mountain streams, forestry plantations, a cave called ''The Foxes’ Cave'', water sinkholes, mountain pools and dug wells. The townland is traversed by the regional

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, minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 436 statute acres.

History

In the 1590s Edmund MacGauran, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, had a hiding-place beside the well of Eshveagh while on the run from the English army. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the name as ''Essbehagh'' and gives the owners as ''Mr. Thomas Worsopp and others''. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as ''Ishveagh''. The 1821 Census of Ireland spells the name as ''Eshvaugh'' and states- ''Eshvaugh containing 60 acres of green pasture and 250 of black bog & mountain''. The 1825 Tithe Applotment Books spell the name as ''Ishveagh''. The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- ''The soil is light, being reclaimed mountain, and the crops in general poor''.

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 thirteen landholders in the townland. In the 19th century the landlord of Eshveagh was Leonard Dobbin. There is a poem about a faction fight between the Dolans and the McGoverns at Gub and Eshveagh.

Census

In the 1821 census of Ireland, there are sixteen families listed in the townland. In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are nineteen families listed in the townland. In the

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, there are seventeen families listed in the townland.

Antiquities

# A stone boundary cairn. The 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Site No. 146) describes it as- '' Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Situated on the border between counties Cavan and Fermanagh. Small, low, circular cairn of stones (diam. c. 15m; H 0.6m). Rising from the cairn are four piles of stones, two of which are narrow, steep-sided and tapering to a point (Wth 0.6m; H 1.3m) and apparently constructed from original cairn material. The other two are lower, wider and less well defined. The authors of The Kingdom of Glan (Glangevlin Guild ICA 1983, 42) refer to the site as 'Lacht an Phelim' from Phelim O'Dolan who was an ancient proprietor of Gleann Gaibhle who owned the townland of Gub, and stated that 'it was erected some centuries ago' ''. # The Bush Hotel

References

External links

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