Munlough South

Munlough South (from Irish Móinloch Íochtar meaning 'the Bog Lake, Lower’) is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

Its chief geographical features are the dried bed of the lake that gives the townland its name, a stream and a dug well.

A schedule, dated 31 July 1610, of the lands William Tyrrell owned in Tullyhaw prior to the Ulster Plantation included: Mallagh Echteragh, two poles.

[6][7] The Commissioners of the Plantation stated: We find that Mr William Tirrell hath had ye possession of these polls some 4 years, of some a lesse tyme without title but only by agreement with some of the natives for protection.

In the Irish Rebellion of 1641 Martin Kilhare of Drumlane made a deposition about the rebellion in Munlough as follows- [9] (239) Martine Killhare of Drumlane in the Countie of Cauan doe depose that my Brother Godferrye Killhare of Munlogh within the parish of Templeporte within the Baronie of Tullahae and Countie of Cauan, had in personale estate when this Rebellione first begane- Cowes ould and younge woorth £64; Horses woorth £20; Corne and haye worth £10; Houshould goods £10; In all £104.

Signum [mark] predicti Martini 13 Jan: 1641 Jur coram nobis 30 Jan: 1641 Roger Puttocke Will: Hitchcock The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the townland as Mullaghightragh with the proprietor being The Commonwealth of England and the tenant being Lieutenant John Blackforde, both of whom appear as proprietor in several other Templeport townlands in the same survey.