Carramanagh

 

Townland of Carrowmanagh highlighted in yellow

Anglicized from Irish: An Ceathrú Mheánach

Translates to: “The Middle Quarter”

Etymology: 

The term quarter when used in surveying and homesteading refers to a squarish tract of land which is roughly quarter a mile long on each side thus containing 160 acres (aka a quarter of a square mile). This describes Carrowmanagh well as it is fairly square in shape and contains, as it was measured in the mid 1800s, over 140 acres of land (this might mean that 20 acres may have been lost to another possibly ‘newer’ townland designation). The townland might be described as the middle quarter because it was part of a larger section (a section is the term for a square mile of land) or simply that this area of land with its traits lay in between other existing townlands.

Size: 140 acres, 1 rods, 9 perchs

Siting: 

Situated in the northern extremity of the parish. Bounded on the north by Tonwee and Eighterard, on the east by Fough West and Ordnance Ground, and on the south by Clare and Canrawer West.

Description: 

Land not good. Contains over 140 acres all of which is arable land. A by-road passes through it to the east side of the Fough/Owenriff river, the centre of which together with a part of the town forms the south-eastern boundary of this townland.

Placenames within townland:

Souterrain (arch. remains) – Close to the summit of a hill 180m north-east of the rath in the townland of Clare. Marked on the 2nd ed. OSI 6 inch map (1899) as a ‘cave’. No visible surface traces survive. 

Parkaniska (field) – Translates to ‘field of the water’. A field which is/was often flooded in winter although its exact location was never noted.

Previous proprietor/landlord: 

Thomas B. Martin of Ballinahinch Castle (c. 1850)

Land Value (1857): £74 s.5 d.0

Buildings Value (1857): £31 s.0 d.0

Surnames attached to the townland (1857-1911): 

Reilly, Connor, Scully, McNab, McLoed, Faherty, Kavanagh, Guilfoyle, Clarke, St. George, McDonagh, Joyce, Geraghty, O’Flaherty, Carson, Halloran, Murphy, Madden, Linsky, Houghagan, Flanagan, Cannon, Holden, Fitzpatrick, Cloherty, Keady, Wall, Conneely, Gallagher, Keneavy, Treacy, Dixon, Roe, Melia, Molloy, Coyne, Murray