Killycluggin

Killycluggin (from Irish: 'Coil a Chlogáin', meaning "the Wood of the Bell-Shaped Stone") is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish area of Templeport and the barony of Tullyhaw.

The first depiction of the townland of "Killycluggin" was on the 1609 Baronial Map It was subsequently shown on the 1665 Down Survey map and also began featuring in their prints.

Killycluggin is best known for the Killycluggin Stone, situated in a stone circle on Bannon's farm. Due to common belief that the stone's decorations represent Crom Cruach, a pre-Christian pagan god of Ireland, Killycluggin is known as the site where Crom Cruach became recognised. The stone became significant to the town on 23 June 1610 when The Plantation of Ulster along with King James VI and I decided to grant "Two polls of Kilclogen to Hugh Culme esquire, as part of the Manor of Calva." It was due to this motion that Clume surrendered his interest in Killycluggin to Walter Talbot of Ballyconnell. Talbot died on June 26, 1625 in Ballyconnell and his son, James Talbot, inherited the Killycluggin lands. He was ten years old at the time.

In 1635, James married Helen Calvert, the daughter of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. The couple had a son, George Talbot.

In the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, James Talbot's estate in Ballyconnell was confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 because of Talbot's Catholic faith. He was later granted an estate in 1655 at Castle Rubey, County Roscommon as replacement. James died in 1687, upon which the lands at Killycluggin were divided between Dorby Don, John Reade, and Thomas Teddy.

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