Mullanacre Lower

Mullanacre Lower is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland. The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename “Mullagh an Acre” which means ‘The acre of the summit’. In the 17th century it formed part of Carrowmore, County Cavan townland.

It is bounded on the north by Mullanacre Upper townland, on the east by Carrowmore, County Cavan townland, on the south by Drumane & Bofealan townlands and on the west by Moher townland. Its chief geographical features are the Crooked River and Slieve Rushen mountain, on whose southern slope it lies, reaching an altitude of over 600 feet (180 m) above sea-level.

The townland is traversed by the Bawnboy Road, Carrowmore Lane and other minor lanes.

The townland covers 315 statute acres, including 1-acre (4,000 m²) of water. It formed part of the Manor of Calva which was granted to Walter Talbot in 1610 as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists the landlord of the townland as the Annesley Estate & the tenants as Donohoe, McBrien, Henderson, Graham, Reilly, McKiernan, Armstrong, McGovern, Kelliher and Annesley. The 1841 Census of Ireland gives a population of 23 in Mullanacre Lower, of which 13 were males and 10 were females, with 4 houses. The 1851 Census of Ireland gives a population of 18, a decrease of 5 on the 1841 figure, due to the intervening Irish Famine of 1845–47, of which 9 were males and 9 were females, with 4 houses. The decrease was larger in the male population. In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are fourteen families listed in the townland.^[1]

The historic sites in the townland are a medieval ringfort south of the Bawnboy Road, (Site number 1019, page 128, Mullanacre Lower townland, in “Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan”, Patrick O’Donovan, 1995), and some old quarries.

References

1. ^ [1]. Census of Ireland 1911.

External links

• The IreAtlas Townland Data Base