Doon (Drumreilly)

Doon (from Irish Dún meaning- The Fort) is a townland in the civil parish of Drumreilly, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

Its chief geographical features are Bartonny Top mountain (Irish = Bharr an Tonnaigh = The Top of the Mound) which reaches a height of 411 metres,[1] Bartonny Lough,[2][3] mountain pools, the Yellow River, forestry plantations, small streams and river swallow holes.

[5] An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 20 September 1630 found that, at the date of his death on 26 June 1625, Walter Talbot of Ballyconnell owned, inter alia, 2 polls in Bartony.

[9] The aforesaid McGovern lands in Doon were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and were distributed as follows- The 1652 Commonwealth Survey depicts the townland as Barratunny with the proprietor being Lieutenant-Colonel Tristram Beresford whose tenant was Owen McGulrick.

In the Hearth Money Rolls compiled on 29 September 1663[10] it is spelled Baretunny and lists the taxpayers as Laghlin Oge McKelagher, Tirlagh McKealagher, Hugh Macolricke and William O’Dolan.