Snugborough (County Cavan)

Kealloge was an Anglicisation of the Gaelic placename 'Coill Óg', which means The New or Little Wood and it is depicted with this name on the 1609 Ulster Plantation Baronial map.

Mrs Montgomery was formerly Miss Elizabeth Percy of Snugborough House, County Wicklow, which was erected in 1695.

When she died in December 1724, a few months after her husband bought the Ballyconnell estate, he renamed Kealloge as Snugborough in his wife’s honour.

From medieval times until 1606, the townland formed part of the lands owned by the McGovern (name) clan.

An Inquisition held in Cavan Town on 20 September 1630 stated that Walter Talbot's lands included one poll in Killog.

[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.

The estate, including Snugborough, 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 Snugborough in the Irish general election, 1761: Thomas Thornton.

The losing candidates were George Montgomery (MP) of Ballyconnell and Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham.

[19] In the Fermanagh Poll of Electors 1788 there was one Snugborough resident, William Clinging, who was entitled to vote as he owned land in Ports townland in Galloon parish.

[20] In the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Catholics attacked the Protestant soldiers returning from the Battle of Ballinamuck on 8 September 1798.

[21] The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland- Kernan, Baxter, Hewit, McNight, Moore, McGuire, O'Neil, Gerty, Friel, O'Brien, Conoly, McBryan, Barrat, Seaton, Gilease, McGauran, Saunders, Gibson, Reilly, Donahy, Shenan, Fitzpatrick.

[23][24][25] Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists the landlord of the townland as the Annesley Estate & the tenants as- O’Neill, Brien, McBrien, Burns, Donohoe, Gilleese, Carberry, Freehill, Reilly, Geraghty, McGovern, Shanahan, McTaggart, Saunders, Seaton, Gwynne, Gibson, Barrett and Faris.

[26] In the Dúchas Folklore Collection there is a story by Mr J. McCabe in 1938 relates a fairytale that occurred in Snugborough.