Tullycrafton

The townland is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes.

[2] 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.

The landlord of Tullycrafton in the 19th century was Sir John Crofton, after whose family the townland is named.

The National Library of Ireland holds rentals of the Crofton estate from 1769 to 1814, MS Numbers 20,783 and 4530.

Century member of the Mag Shamhráin clan was Sir Patrick McGovern [1871 – 1933].