Owencam

Owencam (from Irish Abhainn Cham, meaning 'The Crooked River') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

[2] The sub-divisions of the townland are Cahran (Caothran = The Rowan Tree); Black Park; Pulbraddagh (Poll Braddach = Dangerous Quagmire).

In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay soils.

It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land.

[3] The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list eight tithepayers in the townland[4] The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- There is a large mountain stream runs through the centre of the townland, on the north bank of which there are several good houses.