Gortacashel

Gortacashel (Irish derived place name, Gort an Chaisil, meaning ‘The Field of the Stone Fort’) is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

[2] In medieval times Gortacashel was owned by the McGovern Clan and formed part of a ballybetagh spelled (variously) Aghycloony, Aghcloone, Nacloone, Naclone and Noclone (Irish derived place name Áth Chluain, meaning ‘The Ford of the Meadow’).

The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the townland as Gortcashell with the proprietor being Mr Thomas Worshipp and the tenan being Edmund Magwire.

In the Cavan Poll Book of 1761, there was one person registered to vote in Gortacashel in the Irish general election, 1761[6] - Robert Eccles esquire of County Fermanagh.

[7] The 1821 Census of Ireland spells the name as Gortnacashel and Gartacashel and states- Farm containing 100 acres of excellent land on which stands a chapel.