Corratawy, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Corr an tSamhaidh’ meaning ''The Round Hill of the Sorrel Herb'', 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 Templeport,

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 th ...

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. Locate ...

. The local pronunciation is ''Curratavy''. Road at Corratawy - geograph

Geography

Corratawy is bounded on the north by

Derrylahan Derrylahan, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Doire Leathan’ meaning ''The Wide Oak-wood'', is a townland in the civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic ...

townland, on the west by

Drumhurrin Drumhurrin, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic ‘Droim Shoirn’, meaning ''The Hill-Ridge of the Lime-Kiln or Furnace'', is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin an ...

and

Lattone Lattone, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Leath Tóin’ meaning ''The Half-Side of a Hollow, i.e. ‘A Hillside’'' is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin a ...

townlands and on the east by

Creea Creea, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, either ‘Críocha’ meaning ''The Territory or the Boundaries'', or ‘Cré’ meaning ''Clay'', or ‘Croí’ meaning ''The Heart'' or 'Criathar' meaning a ''Sieve'', is a townland in the civil parishes ...

and Edenmore townlands. Its chief geographical features are Carricknahurroo Lough, Drumhurrin Lough, Corratawy Lough, mountain streams, woods, dug wells and spring wells. The townland is traversed by the regional

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, minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 346 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 dated 10 May 1744 spells the name as ''Currawtawny''. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the name as ''Cortawy''. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list four tithepayers in the townland. The Corratawy Valuation Office Field books are available for July 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 seven landholders in the townland. The landlord of Corratawy in the 19th century was William Blachford.

Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are nine families listed in the townland. In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are nine families listed in the townland.

Antiquities

# A sweathouse. The 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Site no. 1865), describes it as- ''Marked on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated 180m NE of Drumhurrin Lough. In the early decades of this century it was dismantled and the stones utilised as building material for field boundaries in the vicinity (local information). No visible remains at ground level''. # Stone bridges over the rivers # Lime-kilns # Corratawy National School, Roll No. 13,702. The school was opened in January 1890 by the parish priest, Father Thomas Corr, as one of the replacements for closed old schools in the parish. There were 132 pupils in the school in 1890. Local folklore was collected in 1938 by the pupils of the school. The school was closed in the mid-1960s.

References

External links

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