Gortaree

Gortaree is a townland in the Civil Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Knockninny, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

A sub-denomination of the townland is called Gorteen (from Irish: Gortín meaning 'A small cultivated field or garden').

The map for Knockninny barony stops on the east bank of the stream entering the Woodford river between the townlands of Derryhooly and Corry townlands,[2] while the Tullyhaw barony map stops where the Irish border is now,[3] thus omitting that part of Tomregan parish which lies in County Fermanagh.

Taking advantage of this oversight, Lady Margaret O’Neill, the widow of Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh) claimed the land.

[4] What happened next is unclear as James Trayle, who had been granted the nearby manor of Dresternan in 1610, began making leases of the lands in 1613.

[8] Thomas Wenslowe of Derryvore made the following deposition on 16 January 1643 about the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in Knockninny: "Thomas Wenslowe of Derryvore in the County of ffermanagh gent, aged 33 yeres or thereabouts, sworne & examined sayth that in the beginning of the present rebellion vizt on or about the 23rd of October 1641, one James Maguire of Knocknynny & Cahill Maguire of the same in the same County gent, both brothers, and John mc Corry of Gartharee in the same County gent, and a great number of other Rebells whose names he cannott expresse, came in hostile manner to this deponentes said house & surprisd and ransacked the same, And forceibly tooke away from him this deponent a great number of his beastes, cattle horses howshold goods & other thinges of the value and to his losse of £300 sterling at the least & expelled him from the possession of his land and farmes worth clerely £35 per annum whereof he accompteth to have lost 3 yeres proffitt wort amounting to £105.

[12] The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland: Quinn, Drum, Rooney, Burke, Graves, McGauran, Clarke, McGuire, Wallace.