Knockgorm, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic 'Cnoc Gorm', meaning ''The Blue Hill'' (probably because the soil is light blue), 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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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 ...

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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 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

Knockgorm is bounded on the north by Altshallan and Curraghglass townlands, on the east by Legatraghta townland and on the south by Slievenakilla townland. Its chief geographical features are the

oligotrophic An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients. They may be contrasted with copiotrophs, which prefer nutritionally rich environments. Oligotrophs are characterized by slow growth, low rates o ...

lakes- Munter Eolus Lough (Gaelic meaning ''The Descendants of Eolus'') and Knockgorm Lough, mountain streams, waterfalls, forestry plantations and gravel pits. The townland is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 341 statute acres.

History

In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay 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. A deed by Thomas Enery dated 29 Jan 1735 includes the lands of ''Knockgorrum''. A deed by John Enery dated 13 December 1774 includes the lands of ''Knockgarrim otherwise Knockgarrin''. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as ''Knockgorm''. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list six tithepayers in the townland. The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- ''Contains 351 acres, 319 of which are rough mountain pasture...lime stone can be procured but it is not quarried nor used in any way whatever''. The Knockgorm Valuation Office Field books are available for August 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 four landholders in the townland. In the 19th century the landlord of Knockgorm was the Hassard Estate. In 1875 the Hassard Estate sold Knockgorm to James Bracken.

Census

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

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, there are three families listed in the townland.http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Derrynananta/Knockgorm/ ''Census of Ireland 1911''

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