Makief

Makief (Irish derived place name, Magh Caoimh meaning ‘The Beautiful Plain’.

[1]) is a townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland.

An Inquisition held at Ballyconnell on 2 November 1629 stated that the poll of Taghabane, owned by Sir James Craig, contained six sub-divisions which included one named Mackeif.

[3] Sir James Craig died in the siege of Croaghan Castle on 8 April 1642.

[5][6] In 1832 one person in Hill was registered as a keeper of weapons- John Patterson, who had one gun and one blunderbuss.