Kildallan Townland

Kildallan () is a townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland.

Geography

Kildallan is bounded on the north by Carn, Tullyhunco and Killygreagh townlands, on the west by Ardlougher and Dring townlands, on the south by Claragh and Clonkeen townlands and on the east by Bocade Glebe and Listiernan townlands. Its chief geographical features are Kildallan Hill which reaches a height of 370 feet, small streams, a gravel pit, a spring well and dug wells. Kildallan is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 398 acres.

Etymology

The earliest surviving reference to the name is for the year 1475 in the 'Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484', where it is spelled ''Kylldallan''. Another mention is in the Life of Saint Máedóc of Ferns complied 1536, where it is spelled as ''Cill Dalláin''. An Inquisition of 1588 spells it as ''Kildallon''. An Inquisition of 1590 spells it as ''Kildallan''. A grant of 1595 spells it as ''Kildallon''. A grant of 1603 spells it as ''Kildallon''. A grant of 1605 spells it as ''Killdallane''. A grant of 1607 spells it as ''Killadallan''. A survey of 1608 spells the name as ''Killdallan''. The 1609 Plantation of Ulster Map depicts it as ''Keildallan''. A grant of 1610 spells the name as ''Killdallen''. A lease of 1612 spells it as ''Kildallan''. A grant of 1627 spells the name as ''Kildallon''. A lease of 1639 spells it as ''Killdallan''. The 1641 Depositions spell the name as ''Kildallan'', ''Killdallen'' and ''Kildallen''. John Colgan's 1645 book Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, under 29 January, spells the name as ''Ecclesia Killdallanensi'' and ''Kill-Dallain''. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells it as ''Kildollan''. The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as ''Kildallan Tirmin''. William Petty's map of 1685 depicts it as ''Killdallon Termin''.

History

Early history

Kildallan townland was the site of the earliest Christian church in the parish of Kildallan and the parish took its name from the townland. The church was traditionally founded by the Ollamh Érenn or Chief Poet of Ireland, Dallán Forgaill at the end of the 6th century. Kildallan townland formed part of the church lands belonging to the Church and so its history belongs to the ecclesiastical history of the parish. It would have been owned by the parish priest and the erenach family rather than the local McKiernan chief. In medieval times the parish priest was entitled to one-third of the parish tithes and two-thirds went to Drumlane Abbey. The vicarage was worth 3 marks per annum. The 'Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484', on 18 November 1475 states-
The Life of Saint Máedóc of Ferns complied 1536, (Section 229), states- Section 246 states-

The church had two different rights, one was ownership of the church lands (both termon lands and the site of the church and graveyard) and the other was ownership of the church tithes (also called the rectorial tithes or the rectory) which were a tenth of all the produce of the parish not owned by the church. These rights were often owned by different people and so had a different history, as set out below.

Church Lands

An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 20 June 1588 valued the total vicarage of Kildallon at £7.

An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 19 September 1590 found ''the termon lands of Kildallan to consist of two cartrons of land at a yearly value of 2 shillings''.

On 8 June 1595 Queen Elizabeth I of England granted to Edmond Barret, inter alia, ''Two pulls of land of every kind belonging to the termon or hospital of Kildallon, in the County of Cavan, commonly called the Hospital Lands''.

King James VI and I seized the lands in Kildallan townland belonging to the erenach of Kildallan, Sloghie O'Shanaghan, who had been attainted and on 7 November 1603, the King granted a lease for 21 years of, inter alia, ''The fearme of the termon of Kildallon containing twoe pooles of land'' to Sir Thomas Ash of Trim, County Meath.

By grant dated 6 March 1605, along with other lands, Killdallane was leased for 21 years at an annual rent of 5 shillings to Sir Garret Moore, 1st Viscount Moore.

By grant dated 10 August 1607, along with other lands, King James VI and I granted a lease of the lands of Killadallan containing 2 pulls for 21 years at an annual rent of £0-6s-6d to the aforesaid Sir Garret Moore, 1st Viscount Moore of Mellifont Abbey, County Louth.

A survey conducted in 1608 stated that the ecclesiastical land of ''Killdallan contained 2 polls lying neere the parish church of Killdallan. The rectory is appropriate to the abbay of Dromlaghan and there is a vicar endowed''.
The Inquisition then granted the lands to the Protestant Bishop of Kilmore.

By a deed dated 6 April 1612, Robert Draper, the Anglican Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh granted a joint ''lease of 60 years over the termons or herenachs of, inter alia, 2 polls in Kildallan'' to Oliver Lambart, 1st Lord Lambart, Baron of Cavan, of Kilbeggan, County Westmeath and Sir Garret Moore, 1st Viscount Moore, of Mellifont Abbey, County Louth.

The first Protestant minister of Kildallan was Martin Baxter who was appointed on 10 August 1618. The Roman Catholic church was renovated and modified for Protestant worship and the present Church of Ireland is still on the same site.

By deed dated 17 July 1639, William Bedell, the Anglican Bishop of Kilmore, extended the above lease of ''2 pooles in Killdallan'' to Oliver Lambert's son, Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan.

The 1652 Commonwealth Survey states the owner was ''the Lord of Cavan'' (i.e. Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan).

Rectorial Tithes

The rectorial tithes were split between the local parish priest who received 1/3 and Drumlane Abbey which received 2/3, from medieval times until they were seized in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

An Inquisition held in Cavan town on 25 September 1609 stated that

On 9 March 1669 King Charles II of England granted ''to James Long alias Layng, incumbent of Killdallan alias Killdallon, Co. Cavan, the rectory and impropriate tythes of the said parish, forever''.

17th century

At Cavan, on 26 July 1642, Thomas and William Jones gave the names of rebel leaders in the Cavan Irish Rebellion of 1641, including ''Pattrick Brady of Killdallen, Hugh Brady of same and James Brady of same''. At Cavan on 21 June 1643, Henry Baxter gave the name of a rebel leader as ''Hugh Brady of kildallon''. Edward Cooper and his brother John, both of ''Kildallon'', were robbed by ''Hugh Brady of the parish of Kildallon of the County of Cauan & Brian mc Carnan & Cormock Brady & Knoghor mc Anaboigh of the same parish''. On 6 April 1643, William Reynolds of Lisanover, Templeport, stated he was robbed by ''Edmund mc Kernon of the Parrish of Kildallon gent & Edmund his sonn, & William another of his sonns''.

In the Hearth Money Rolls compiled on 29 September 1663 there were three Hearth Tax payers in ''Kildallan- Patrick Brady, Hugh Brady and Cormuck Brady''.

In 1680 the trial for forgery of Robert Young, curate of Kildallan, took place.

18th century to date

The Vestry Book of Kildallan Anglican Church is still in existence and dates from the early 1700s.

The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as ''Kildallan''.

The 1825 Tithe Applotment Books (which spell it as ''Killdallen'') list twenty four tithepayers in the townland.

In 1832 two people in ''Killdallen'' were registered as a keeper of weapons- John Huggins who had two guns and one pistol and John Magaman who had one pistol.

The Kildallan Valuation Office Field books are available for April & July 1838.

Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists thirty-three landholders in the townland.

Folklore about Kildallan is contained in the 1937 Dúchas collection

Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there were twenty-seven families listed in the townland.

In the 1911 census of Ireland, there were twenty families listed in the townland.

Antiquities

# Kildallan Church of Ireland, built c.1750 on the site of the old Roman Catholic church.
# The Relig Graveyard. The Archaeological Survey of County Cavan states- ''Marked on all OS eds. Circular graveyard (int. dims. 35m NNW-SSE; 30.4m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with modern external trench. The outer face of the bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Entrance at ESE through iron gate held on 18th-century octagonal stone gateposts, with stone walling on either side. The earliest identifiable gravestone dates to 1763. A cross-inscribed stone recorded by Davies (''The churches of County Cavan'', in The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Ser. 7, Vol. XVIII, p. 97, 1948) and reused as a headstone, may have originally functioned as the lintel of a doorway''. In 1739 Dean John Richardson (the rector of Annagh Parish, County Cavan 1709-1747) stated- ''On the lands of Kildallan adjoyning to Carn Dallan, there is a cemetery with large stones in which some of the Irish do still bury their dead, though the church and churchyard are not 150 yards distant from it''.
# Kildallan Parish School. In 1826 the headmaster was a Protestant, Thomas Vies. It was described as a stone and limestone building valued at £40. The local Church of Ireland rector contributed £2 per annum towards its upkeep. In 1842 the school was mixed and had 184 pupils, 104 boys and 80 girls. In 1854 the school was split into Kildallan Boys' School which had 49 pupils, (Roll Number 1141) and Kildallan Girls' School which had 51 pupils, (Roll Number 5699). In 1862 the headmaster of the boys school was George H. Gwynne, a Roman Catholic and there were 60 male pupils, of which 55 were Roman Catholic, 3 Church of Ireland and 2 Presbyterian. In 1862 the headmistress of the girls school was Ellen Rudden, a Roman Catholic and there were 58 female pupils, 47 were Roman Catholic and 11 were Church of Ireland. In 1874 the boys' school had 84 pupils and the girl' school had 70 pupils. In 1890 the boys' school had 104 pupils.
# Kildallan House.
# Bronze sword. The Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1861-1864 state-

References

External links

The IreAtlas Townland Data Base

{{County Cavan

Townlands of County Cavan