Mucklagh is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.
The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename Muclach which means 'A place where pigs feed'.
According to the Dúchas School's Collection the lane was made as part of the public works carried out in the 1840s as a result of the Great Famine (Ireland).
An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 20 September 1630 stated that Walter Talbot's lands included one poll each in Mucklagh and Skeagh.
[10] James Talbot married Helen Calvert, the daughter of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of Maryland, USA, in 1635 and had a son Colonel George Talbot who owned an estate in Cecil County, Maryland which he named Ballyconnell in honour of his native town in Cavan.
[14] 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 estate 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 Mucklagh, was split up among different purchasers and maps & details of previous leases of the sold parts are still available.
[17] In the Cavan Poll Book of 1761, there was one person registered to vote in Mucklagh in the Irish general election, 1761: Alexander Hewit.
The losing candidates were George Montgomery (MP) of Ballyconnell and Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham.
[18] In the Fermanagh Poll of Electors 1788 there was one Mucklagh resident, Robert Hewitt, who was entitled to vote as he owned land in Gortineddan townland.
[19] The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland- McKenna, Fitzpatrick, Clements, McCorry, McDonnell, Latimer, McCusker, Curry, McCaffrey.
[20] The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- Muclach, 'a place where pigs feed; a stye, a piggery'.