Cuillaghan

Cuillaghan is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, Barony of Loughtee Lower, County Cavan, Ireland.

The townland name is an anglicisation of a Gaelic placename, Coilleachán, meaning 'The Underwood' (i.e. a place full of shrubs).

Its chief geographical features are the Shannon-Erne Waterway, the Dhoogue stream, Annagh Lough, and Cuillaghan Lough,[5] which lakes contain a wide variety of coarse fish, woods & plantations, a drumlin hill which reaches a height of 271 feet above sea-level and dug wells.

An Ulster Plantation grant of the 'Manor of Monaghan', dated 21 June 1610, from King James VI and I to Sir Hugh Wyrral, a native of Enfield, Essex, England, included two polls of Cullagan.

[6] Bagshaw's daughter, Anne, married Thomas Richardson of Dublin, son of John Richardson, bishop of Ardagh, and the marriage settlement dated 28 May 1654 transferred the estate to the married couple.

A deed dated 2 May 1724 by the aforesaid Meredith Gwyllym includes the townland as Quillaghan.

[8] The Gwyllym estate was sold for £8,000 in 1724 to Colonel Alexander Montgomery (1686–1729) of Convoy House, County Donegal, M.P.

In 1856 they sold the land to take advantage of its increased value owing to the opening of the Woodford Canal through the town in the same year.

The estate, including Cuillaghan, was split up among different purchasers and maps & details of previous leases of the sold parts are still available.

One was located on the left side of the Yellow Road at the lane entrance just before you enter Camalier townland.