Tonyrevan

[1] Tonyrevan is traversed by the national secondary R205 road (Ireland), rural lanes and the disused Cavan and Leitrim Railway.

[2] In medieval times the McGovern tuath 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.

Until the 1652 Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Tonyrevan formed part of the townland of Killycluggin and its history is the same up until then.

[5] Another name for the townland was Rostonybegg or Rostonibeg (from Irish Ros Tonnaigh Beag, meaning 'The Wood of the Small Pasture')[6] The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the proprietor as being Lieutenant John Blackforde and the tenant as Dorby Donn, who also appear as proprietor and tenant for several other Templeport townlands in the same survey.

He became a merchant in Dorchester, Dorset but fled to France in 1633 when facing a warrant from the Exchequer for not paying customs.

[12][13] On 4 November 1844, a party of armed men attacked the house of Thomas Hayes of Tonyraven, from which they carried off a sword and swore him to silence.