Snugborough
Snugborough is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.
The older Irish name of the townland was ‘Kealloge’ which was an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename ‘Coill Og’, which means ‘"The New or Little Wood" and it is depicted with this name on the 1609 Ulster Plantation map. The townland formed part of the Manor of Calva which was granted to Walter Talbot in 1610 as part of the Plantation of Ulster. In 1724 the Calva estate was sold by the Gwyllym family to Colonel Alexander Montgomery (1686–1729). Mrs Montgomery was formerly Miss Elizabeth Percy of Snugborough House, County Wicklow, which was erected in 1695. When she died in December 1724, a few months after her husband bought the Ballyconnell estate, he renamed Kealloge as Snugborough in his wife’s honour.
It is bounded on the north by the international border with Fermanagh and Northern Ireland, on the east by Aughrim, Mucklagh & Gortoorlan townlands, on the south by Derryginny townland and on the west by Carrowmore, County Cavan townland. Its chief geographical features are some mountain streams, a pond on its boundary with Gortoorlan, forestry plantations and Slieve Rushen mountain, on whose southern slope it lies, reaching an altitude of over 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea-level.
The townland is traversed by the Bawnboy Road, Carrowmore Lane and Snugborough Lane.
Snugborough covers an area of 499 statute acres, including 7 acres (28,000 m2) of water.
The Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 list the occupiers of the townland as Patricke McConell, Murto Abraham, Owen McKernan, Knoghure McKeney and Edmund O’Reilly.
In the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Catholics attacked the Protestant soldiers returning from the Battle of Ballinamuck on 8 September 1798. The incident took place at Soldier's Bray, Snugborough.
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