Altcrock

Altcrock (from Irish Alt Chnoc, meaning 'The Height of the Hill') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

Excise and Revenue men used to sink the illegal poitín seizures here; The Eydhan (Éadan = A Hill Brow); Brucklagh (Broclagh = A Badger Sett); Pullahearan (Poll a hIarainn = The Iron Hole); Assagowlan (Eas a Gabhlán = The Waterfall of the River-Fork); Currveg (An Chorr Bheag = The Little Smooth Round Hill).

[citation needed] In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay soils.

It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land.

A lease dated 17 September 1816 John Enery of Bawnboy includes Altcrock.

[4] The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- The townland is bounded on the north and south sides by two large mountain streams, in the latter of which there is a fall of 30 feet and beside a small house in ruins on the north side of the townland there is a spring called Mullaghroe, which has the singular property of turning new milk into curds.