Tullynacleigh () 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 origi ...

in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

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 18t ...

County Cavan County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is base ...

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 the c ...

and barony of Tullyhaw. Tullynacleigh Townland (geograph 3586616)

Geography

Tullynacleigh is bounded on the north by

Garvalt Lower Garvalt Lower, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Garbhalt Íochtar’, meaning ''The Lower Rough Gorge'', is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin and barony of ...

townland, on the east by

Carrick West Carrick West, (), is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It is named Carrick West or Carrick Hassard to distinguish it from Carrick East or Carrick Fisher townland which is in Templeport parish. It lies in the Ro ...

townland and on the west by Carnmaclean townland. Its chief geographical features are Tully Lough, mountain streams, forestry plantations and spring wells. The townland is traversed by the local L1016 road, minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 58 statute acres. A subdivision of the townland was named ''Sheskinmore''.

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 ''Tullynecleff & Sheskinmore''. A deed dated 13 Nov 1738 includes: ''Tullynacleff and Sheskimmore''. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as ''Tullonacloigh & Seskenmore''. The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- ''The soil is of a light blue gravelly nature. Freestone is interspersed through it, but is not raised nor used for any thing''. The Tullynacleigh 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 examinati ...

of 1857 lists two landholders in the townland. In the 19th century the landlord of Tullynacleigh was the Annesley estate.

Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there was one family listed in the townland.http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Dunmakeever/Tullynacleigh/ ''Census of Ireland 1901'' In the 1911 census of Ireland, there were no families living in the townland.

Antiquities

# Tullynacleigh National School was erected in the 1830s but in the late nineteenth century, the parish priest of Glangevlin, Father Thomas Corr, replaced Tullynacleigh school with a new one in Carrick West.

References

External links

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