Cloneary

Cloneary (from Irish: Cluain an Aoire meaning 'The Shepherd’s Meadow') 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.

Cloneary is bounded on the north by Port, Templeport and Cor, Templeport townlands, on the west by Ray, Templeport townland, on the south by Rosehill, Templeport and Gortnaleck townlands and on the east by Lissanover townland. Its chief geographical features are Gortnaleck Lough, a stream and a dug well. The 1836 Ordnance Survey Namebooks state- The soil is light and is intermixed with limestone which is burned and used for manure.

Cloneary is traversed by minor public roads, rural lanes and the disused Cavan and Leitrim Railway.

The townland covers 142 statute acres.

The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Clonerin.

The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as Cownaren.

Cloneary formed part of the termon or hospital lands belonging to Templeport Church and so its history belongs to the ecclesiastical history of the parish. It would have belonged to the parish priest and the erenach family rather than the McGovern chief. In the 16th century these ecclesiastical lands in Templeport were seized in the course of the Reformation in Ireland and kept first by the English monarch and then eventually granted to the Anglican Bishop of Kilmore.

An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 20 June 1588 valued the total vicarage of Templeport at £10.

An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 19 September 1590 found the termon or hospital lands of Templeport to consist of four polls of land at a yearly value of 4 shillings. Cloneary was one of these four polls.

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