Tullydermot

Tullydermot (Irish derived place name Tulaigh Dhiarmuda, meaning ‘The Hill of Dermot’) is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

Its chief geographical features are Cuilcagh mountain on whose southern slope it lies, the River Cladagh (Swanlinbar), mountain streams, a dug well, forestry plantations and Tullydermot Waterfall.

[4] In the 1609 Plantation of Ulster, Tullydermot formed part of the mountain of Cuilcagh which were granted to John Sandford of Castle Doe, Co. Donegal (the father-in-law of Thomas Guyllym of Ballyconnell) by letters patent dated 7 July 1613 (Pat.

[5][6] It was later sold by Sandford to his wife's uncle Toby Caulfeild, 1st Baron Caulfeild, Master of the Ordnance and Caulfield had the sale confirmed by letters patent of 12 July 1620 (Pat.

The 1836 Ordnance Survey Namebooks states: The soil is very bad.