Camagh

Camagh (from Irish: either Cam-achadh meaning 'A crooked field' or Cam-magh meaning 'A crooked plain') 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.

Camagh is bounded on the north by Rosehill, Templeport and Gortnaleck townlands, on the west by Derryragh and Porturlan townlands, on the south by Gorteen, Templeport and Derrycassan townlands and on the east by Kilnavert townland. Its chief geographical features are Camagh Lough and forestry plantations. Camagh is traversed by the regional R205 road and several rural lanes.

The townland covers 163 statute acres.

In medieval times Coologe Lough stretched all the way north up to and including Camagh Lake, before being reduced by later drainage works. On the 1656 Down Survey map of Tullyhaw, the lake is depicted as a crooked shape, which may be the origin of the townland name.

Until the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, Camagh included the modern townland of Gorteen as one of its subdivisions. Another subdivision was 'Gort na Muc Lach' which means A cultivated field where pigs feed.

The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Cammagh. The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as Comaike.

In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 29 April 1611, along with other lands, King James I granted the two polls of Camagh to the McGovern Chief, Phelim Magawran, 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. An Inquisition of King Charles I held in Cavan town on 4 October 1626 stated that the aforesaid Phelim Magawrane died on 20 January 1622 and his lands including two polls of Camagh went to his son Brian who was aged 30 (born 1592) and married.

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