Teeboy

Teeboy (from Irish Tí Buí meaning The Yellow House) is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

[3] The sub-divisions in the townland are Whitepark; Blackpark; Rock Field; Kilepark; The Gurteens (Guirtíní = The Small Gardens); Cruckane (Cnocán = The Little Hill); Poolaphouca (Poll an Phúca = The Púca's Hollow in the Fort); Torreewa (Tor Riabhach = The Speckled Hill); Curraghstill (Currach a sTéill = The Bog of the Division); Mallai Buidhe - a field owned by Mr Peter McGovern in 1938, covered with yellow ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris.

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.

Teeboy was located in the ballybetagh of Bally Gortnekargie (Irish "Gort na Carraige", meaning 'The Field of the Rock').

The aforesaid McGovern lands in Teeboy were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and were distributed as follows- The 1652 Commonwealth Survey depicts the townland as Tewboy with the proprietor being Lieutenant-Colonel Tristram Beresford.

[12] A lease dated 10 December 1774 from William Crookshank to John Enery of Bawnboy includes the lands of Teeboy.

[15] A lease dated 17 September 1816 John Enery of Bawnboy includes Teeboy otherwise called Tuboy otherwise the two Tubboys.

[17] The 1836 Ordnance survey Namebooks state-The soil is light and is intermixed with lime stone...There is a large lake on the east side of the townland.