Knockmore, County Cavan
| Knockmore TOWNLAND | |
| County Cavan | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Location: | 54°7’24"N, 7°45’18"W |
| Grid reference: | H161194 |
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Knockmore is a townland in County Cavan, within that county's Barony of Tullyhaw.
The name f the townland is from the Irish Cnoc Mór, which is to say 'Big Hill'.
Geography
Knockmore is bounded on the west by Cornacleigh, Corlough, Tullytrasna and Corracholia More townlands, on the north by Clarbally townland, on the south by Corratillan townland and on the east by Muineal and Tonlegee townlands. Its chief geographical features are the River Blackwater, County Cavan, forestry plantations, gravel pits, dug wells and spring wells.
Knockmore is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes.
The townland covers 275 statute acres. It has divisions called- Mollybwee (Mullach Buidhe; The Yellow Hill-Face); Garry-Aymundhiv (Garraidhe Eamain Duibh; Black Edmund's Garden); Pullyarran (Poll a Ghearain; Horse-Pool in the River).
History
In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 24 February 1614, King James VI and I granted, inter alia, one pole of Knockmore to Tirlagh McHugh McBryan Bane O’Reylie.[1] Tirlagh O’Reilly was the great-great-great grandson of the chief of the O'Reilly clan, Seoan mac Pilib O’Reilly, who ruled East Breifne from 1392–1400. His genealogy is Toirdhealbhach Óg son of Aodh son of Brian Bán son of Conchobhar Óg of Bealach an Fheada son of Conchobhar Mór son of Seaán son of Phillip son of Giolla Íosa Ruadh son of Domhnall son of Cathal na Beithighe. Tirlagh O’Reilly’s sons were Aodh, Brian and Seaán.[2] The O’Reilly lands in Knockmore were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and were distributed as follows-
The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the townland as Knock and lists the proprietor as Captain Payne and the tenant as Daniell McConell.
A deed by John Enery dated 13 December 1774 includes the lands of Knockmore.[3] The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as Knockmore.[4]
The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list twenty-four tithepayers in the townland.[5]
In 1841 the population of the townland was 110, being 54 males and 56 females. There were seventeen houses in the townland, of which one was uninhabited.[6] Then in 1845 however the Great Famine struck. In 1851 the population of the townland was recorded as 75. There were sixteen houses in the townland, of which two were uninhabited.[6] In 1861 the population of the townland was 83.
Folk tales relating to Knockmore can be found in the 1938 Dúchas folklore collection.
Sights of the townland
- Stone bridge built around 1770.[7]
- The site of Knockmore hedge-school.[8]
- Stepping stones across the river
- Corlough Post Office
Outside links
References
- ↑ Names in the Land Grants
- ↑ A Genealogical History of the O’Reillys by Eoghan O’Raghallaigh, Section 26, p. 96
- ↑ Irish Deeds Index
- ↑ The Carvaghs A List Of The Several Baronies And Parishes in the County Of Cavan: Cavan Local Studies library
- ↑ Tithe Applotment Books: Knockmore, Templeport
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, Volume 92
- ↑ Corlough, County Cavan: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- ↑ Bawnboy and Templeport History, Heritage, Folklore