Bunreagh townland

Killummod (Roscommon)

Bun Riabhach aka Bunreagh (lit. 'grey bottom') is a townland just south-east of the village of Croghan, adjacent to the site of the medieval Church of Dromyn. Hence, the alias Drumone (Drummin) was sometimes used for Bunreagh. [Before placename spelling was standardised, it also appears as Bonreagh / Burrevagh / Bunrewagh].

16th CENTURY CONFISCATION

Curiously, while most of Co. Roscommon remained Catholic-owned prior to the outbreak of the 1641 Irish Rebellion, a pocket of townlands surrounding (and including) Bunreagh had been Protestant-owned since the Tudor Confiscations of 1540 (awarded to John Crofton, an Elizabethan settler). ​

 

17th CENTURY “DRUMONE alias BINREAGH”

In 1641, Josias Lambert (by marriage to Crofton’s daughter) had come to own Canbo Castle, and a number of surrounding townlands including Bunreagh. Although Lambert retained his lands following Cromwell’s transplantation, by 1870 Bunreagh was in the possession of Col. Thomas Lloyd (1657-1689) a predecessor of Guy Lloyd Esq. of Croghan House (1766-1842) who developed Croghan village in the 18th century. 

 

18th CENTURY 'BUNREAGH'

In 1749, the Elphin Census gives us a clear account of who was living in each townland. Bunreagh was home to 13 families (all substantial farmers).

1749 Census Bunreagh

Dennis & Ellen Balteny (RC) Farmer

Charles & Jane Beirne (RC) Farmer; Paul & Mary Beirne (RC) Farmer; John & Catherine Beirne (RC) Farmer;

John & Eliza Connellan Conlon (RC) Farmer; Peter & Eliza Connellan Conlon (RC) Farmer;

Thady & Brigid Ford (RC) Farmer

James & Sara Gihily (RC) Farmer

Ed & Cath Glynn (RC) Farmer

Thomas & Ellen Golrick (RC) Farmer

Mick & Brigid Mullaney (RC) Farmer

Thomas & Ellen  Nelson (RC) Farmer

Connor & Winny Taughran (RC) Farmer

18th CENTURY 'BUNREAGH'

By 1800, a William Fox Sr (grazier) seems to have had a large holding here.  HOUSES 1839 [FB] Thos Cox Jr.

Croghan RC Baptism records in 1815 and 1816 give Bunreagh as an address for:

James McGarry & Brigid Cummins (1815)

John Feely & Eliza /Brigid McCabe  (1816) see [GV2a];

Ed Beirne & Celia Taughran(1816)

Pat Carty & Mary Gallagher (1816)

Pat Feely & Mary Renney (1816)

Michael Morris & Sara Owens (1816)

By 1842, Bunreagh had become a congested townland, with a population of 115. Not all families resident appear on the Tithe Applotment record:

Thomas Cox Jr.  was teh middelman with a holding of 48 acres and a house at  [GV13a]

Edward Burne/ Beirne

John Carroll Sr. and sons Mark Carroll and John Carroll Jr sharing 11 acres at [GV9a]

Michael & Mary Dolan 10 acres [GV7a]

Peter Donnelly & son Owen Donnelly [GV4a]

John Dowd   31 acres [GV5a]  - In 1845, he won a drainage prize at Boyle Fair. 

John Feely  12 acres [GV2a]; William Feely & son Michael Feely 13 acres [GV6a] 

Hugh Fox & son William Fox {GV1b};  Pat Fox & son Thady Fox [GV11a]

John Golrick /Gaubrick

Michael Lloyd

James Mullaney

James McGarry

Dan and Michael Tighe /Tague; son Michael Jr Tague {GV1a}

By 1857, some new surnames had settled in Bunreagh after the famine:

William Sadler [GV8]

Owen / Eugene Drury [GV10a]

John Naughten [GV12a]

Luke Kavanagh [GV12b]

20th CENTURY BUNREAGH

 

By 1901, only the following households remained in Bunreagh:

John Carroll & Brigid Feely (both of Bunreagh) m. 1875

Andrew Dolan (1833-1915) & Anne Tansey (res. Enagh 1860-71; Bunreagh from 1872);  

Pat Dolan (1837-1919) bachelor/ farm laborer (brother of Andrew Dolan)

Catherine née Golrick (b.1820)  widow of John Feely 

Catherine née Healy widow of William Feely (1827-1897) m.1860

Mary née McGreevy (1833-1909) widow of Martin Feely (1827-1878) m.abt.1853  son Thomas Feely

Pat Glancy (of Dacklin) & Catherine Fox (dau. of Thady Fox, Bunreagh) m. 1869

Eliza (nee Harrington of Co Fermanagh) widow of Martin Mitchell (res. Lisdaly 1880)

Pat Nerney & Emma Reid (previously of Lugnashammer 1885 > Croghan 1887-90 > Lisdaly 1893)

Thomas Priest & Brigid Dowd m.1879 (both of Ardmore)

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