Camagh

[1] In medieval times Coologe Lough stretched all the way north up to and including Camagh Lake, before being reduced by later drainage works.

[2] In medieval times the McGovern barony of Tullyhaw was divided into economic taxation areas called ballibetoes, from the Irish Baile Biataigh (Anglicized as 'Ballybetagh'), meaning 'A Provisioner's Town or Settlement'.

The original purpose was to enable the farmer, who controlled the baile, to provide hospitality for those who needed it, such as poor people and travellers.

Until the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, Camagh included the modern townland of Gorteen, Templeport as one of its subdivisions.

This is confirmed in a visitation by George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes in autumn 1611 when he states that Magauran had his own land given him on this division.

[7] An Inquisition of King Charles I held in Cavan town on 4 October 1626 stated that the aforesaid Phelim Magawrane died on 20 January 1622 and his lands including two polls of Camagh went to his son, the McGovern chief Brian Magauran who was aged 30 (born 1592) and married.

[8] The McGovern lands in Camagh were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and were distributed as follows: The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the proprietor as Ensign Henry Robinson and others.

[10] Less than 1+1⁄2 years later another grant dated 7 July 1669 from King Charles II to John, Lord Viscount Massareene included 12 acres 2 roods 27 perches in Comack.