Mucklagh

Mucklagh is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename "Muc Lach" which means ‘A place where pigs feed’. The oldest surviving mention of the name is in the 1609 Ulster Plantation map where it is spelled ‘Mucklogh’. In the 17th century it was split into two townlands, Mucklagh and Skeagh (which is Gaelic for "The Whitethorn Bush") but Skeagh was later subsumed into Mucklagh.

It is bounded on the north by Aughrim townland, on the east by Gortawee & Rakeelan townlands, on the south by Doon (Tomregan) townland and on the west by Gortoorlan & Snugborough townlands. Its chief geographical features are some mountain streams, forestry plantations and Slieve Rushen mountain, on whose south-eastern slope it lies, reaching an altitude of 300 meters above sea-level.

The townland is traversed by Mucklagh Lane. According to the Dúchas School's Collection at http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044799/5039755 the lane was made as part of the public works carried out in the 1840s as a result of the Great Famine (Ireland). In the same collection at http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044799/5039758 is a description of Mucklagh in 1938.

Mucklagh covers an area of 212 hectares.

It formed part of the Manor of Calva which was granted to Walter Talbot in 1610 as part of the Plantation of Ulster. The Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 list the occupiers of Mucklagh as Donell McDonoghie, Phelemy McDonoghie, Knoghor McDonoghie and Donell Oge McDonoghie.

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