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The old Irish place name was "Renmore or Rinn Mór" meaning the 'Big Promontory or Headland') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

Its chief geographical features are Brackley Lough, small streams, quarries, sinkholes and dug wells.

[1] In medieval times the McGovern barony of Tullyhaw was divided into economic taxation areas called ballibetoes, from the Irish Baile Biataigh (Anglicized as 'Ballybetagh'), meaning 'A Provisioner's Town or Settlement'.

The original purpose was to enable the farmer, who controlled the baile, to provide hospitality for those who needed it, such as poor people and travellers.

The original Irish is Baile Cluain Loch, meaning 'The Town of the Lake Meadow') The 1609 Ulster Plantation Baronial Map depicts the townland as part of Gortatawill.

Hugh O’Reyly, his son and heir has reached his maturity and now holds the land from the king in free and common socage.

At the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 Hugh O'Reilly still held the townland according to the Books of Survey and Distribution.

These included Hugh O'Rely whose lands were distributed as follows- The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the townland as Ranmore and lists the proprietor as Lieutenant-Colonel Tristram Beresford with the tenants as William Chambers & others.

A grant dated 3 November 1666 was made by King Charles II of England to aforesaid Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet which included, inter alia, the lands of Renmoor.

On 13 March 1706 Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone leased the land of Renmore to Robert Saunders (Irish lawyer), one of the founders of the village of Swanlinbar, for a term of 99 years.

[12] Saunders' son Morley later sold his leasehold interest to Colonel John Enery of Bawnboy.

The muddled land history of the area prior to this is described in the 1838 Exchequer case, "Attorney General of Ireland v The Lord Primate".