Derrynatuan, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, either ‘Doirín an tSuain’, meaning ''The Little Oak-wood of the Rest or Sleep'', or ‘Doire na Tóin’, meaning ''The Oak-wood of the Low Lying Land'', or ‘Doire na Tamhan’, meaning ''The Oak-wood of the Tree-Stumps'', 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 ...

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 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 ...

Geography

Derrynatuan is bounded on the north by Carricknagrow and

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 ...

townlands, on the west by Tullantanty and Tullynafreave townlands, on the east by

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 ...

townland and on the south 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 and ...

townland. Its chief geographical features are the

River Shannon The River Shannon ( ga, Abhainn na Sionainne, ', '), at in length, is the longest river in the British Isles. It drains the Shannon River Basin, which has an area of , – approximately one fifth of the area of the island of Ireland. The Shan ...

, the Black River, mountain streams, a gravel pit and forestry plantations. The townland is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 185 statute acres.

History

John O'Donovan (scholar) John O'Donovan ( ga, Seán Ó Donnabháin; 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861), from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland. Life He was the ...

in his Ordnance Survey Letters (1836, p. 16) states- ''I find it chronicled by tradition that this immortal glen derived its name from the famous cow, Glas Gaibhlen, who belonged to a celebrated Tuatha De Danann smith, called Gaibhlen, who, according to the tradition that still lingers here, kept his furnace in the townland of Doire-na-tuan, near the source of the Shannon, where he melted the ore of the mountain Sliabh-an-Iarainn, and where there has been a forge ever since. The cow supplied all the glen with milk, and, when passing out of it, her udder, which was so vastly large, formed the gap between the two mountains called Beul-a-Bhealaigh, that is, the 'Mouth of the Pass'. What caused her to forsake the glen is no longer remembered by tradition''. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list five tithepayers in the townland. The Derrynatuan Valuation Office Field books are available for 1839-1840.

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 three landholders in the townland. In the 19th century the landlord of Derrynatuan was the Annesley Estate.

Census

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

Antiquities

# Derrynatuan National School. # A 19th century Corn Mill, Corn Kiln, Mill-race and cattle pound. # A 19th century tannery. There is a description of this in the Duchás folklore collection. # Stone bridges over the rivers. # Stepping stones over the Shannon and Black rivers

References

External links

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