Toberlyan Duffin
Toberlyan Duffin (from Irish: Tobar Laighin, meaning either 'St Leynie's Well' or "The Well of the Spear", belonging to the Duffin family) is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw.
Geography
Toberlyan is bounded on the north by Corran townland and Bellaheady townland in Kildallan parish, on the west by Toberlyan townland, on the south by Coologe townland and on the east by Killarah townland in Kildallan parish. Its chief geographical features are the Shannon-Erne Waterway, a small stream and a plantation. Toberlyan is traversed by minor roads and rural lanes.
The townland covers 160 statute acres.[1]
History
In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 29 April 1611, along with other lands, King James VI and I granted, inter alia, one poll of Dufferagh to Cormacke McGawran, but it is probable that the lands had been in the possession of the McGovern clan for several hundred years before this and it was just a Surrender and regrant confirming the existing title to the McGoverns. The said Cormacke McGawran was the son of a previous chief of the clan, Tomas Óg Mág Samhradháin who was elected in 1584.
The McGovern lands in Toberlyan Duffin were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and were distributed as follows-
The Hearth Money Rolls for 1662 list two Hearth Tax payers in the townland of Dustin- William Smith and Shane McBrian.
A grant dated 30 January 1668 from King Charles II to James Thornton included one pole in Duffin.
The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list forty eight tithepayers in the townland.[2]
The 1836 Ordnance Survey Namebooks state- "The townland is bounded on the East by a large stream, and near the centre of the townland there is a beautiful spring from whence a stream proceeds, called by the inhabitants Tubberline Well."
In 1855 a local landowner in the townland, Charlotte Hinds, was murdered.[3]
Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists nineteen landholders in the townland.[4]
In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are eight families listed in the townland.[5]
In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are nine families listed in the townland.[6]
Antiquities
- A portal tomb[7]
- A ring-fort.[8]
- A Holy Well, which used to be surrounded by boulders which served as penitential stations however these have now been moved to the field boundary.[7][9]
- A Bullaun stone which used to serve as one of the penitential stations at the Holy Well but has now been moved to the field boundary.[10]
- A socketed spearhead found 1 1/2 feet below the surface of a field.[7]
References
- ↑ "IreAtlas". Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ↑ Tithe Applotment Books 1827
- ↑ Land trouble in Templeport 1855 by Rev. Dan Gallogly, in Breifne Journal, Vol. 5, No. 19 (1979), p.382.
- ↑ - Toberlyan Duffin
- ↑ Census of Ireland 1901
- ↑ Census of Ireland 1911
- 1 2 3
- ↑ Site number 1134 in “Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan”, Patrick O’Donovan, 1995
- ↑ Site number 1779 in “Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan”, Patrick O’Donovan, 1995
- ↑ Site number 1707 in “Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan”, Patrick O’Donovan, 1995
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