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From: "Ellen" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-CAVAN-L] 1836 - Castle of Belturbet
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 22:28:11 -0500


Please don't discontinue these insights into Irish history. I read and file
each of your postings.
Ellen
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From: Peter & Nancy Pfaff <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:30 PM
Subject: [IRL-CAVAN-L] 1836 - Castle of Belturbet


>Are these being read at all or just deleted? If there aren't many people
>interested, I will discontinue the letters from the 1836 Ordnance Survey.
>
>Cavan
>Sunday, May 22, 1836
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>I have received the Name Books of Urney and Castleterra, but we shall have
>done with them tomorrow - I expect, therefore, that the other Baronies will
>be sent us that we may work separately at different Parishes. I intend to
>move in the direction of Killeshandra while O'Conor directs his course to
>the Town of Cootehill, for we can thus get finished in a very short time.
>
>Upon looking over the Extracts from the Annals of the Four Masters, I find
>that the Valley of Glenn Gaibhlen is mentioned in them with a slight change
>in the termination of the name which shews that tradition often corrupts
>ancient names and places for the purpose of making them agree with old
>stories, a fact which, I think, I have already fully established in a
>letter from Maghera in the county of Londonderry. The passage runs as
follows-
>
>"A.D. 1390. The Clan Mortogh and the Teallach Donchadha (now Tullaghonoho)
>emigrated in despite of the O'Rourkes into Fiodh-na-Fionnoige,
>Sliabh-Corran and Kinel Luachain. As soon as O'Rourke, who was then in
>Gleann Gaibhle, had received intelligence of this, he brought his moveables
>with him to the upper part of Kinel Luachain where he made an attack upon
>the people from Beal-Atha-an-Doire (Bellanderry) to the summit of the hills
>of Briefny."
>
> Touching the Castle of Belturbet
> De munitione de Vado Tarbeti, et Osullevani fuga
>
>It appears from Norden's Map that the Castle of Belturbet stood on the east
>side of the River Erne, which agrees with the tradition of the country,
>videlicet, that Caislean Tairbeirt was a small building which stood on a
>point of land running into the Erne not far from the Belturbet Distillery.
>Its ruins are now level with the ground and scarcely visible.
>
>Old Mac Donnell of Annagh Parish remembers to have seen a considerable
>portion of the walls standing but he says that it appeared from the ruins
>to be seen in his time that Castle-Tarbert was but a small building
>commanding that part of the river opposite the Distillery, at which only it
>was fordable. In his memory some of the rocks were removed from the channel
>of the river, which renders it now much deeper and more difficult of being
>forded than it was formerly.
>
>O'Sullevan Beare crossed this ford after his flight from Dunboy and
>Glengarriff which is the only corcumstance that has handed down its correct
>name of Bel-Tarbert, i.e. Os Tarberti to posterity.
>
>Conor Roe, who was styled the English Maguire, hearing of O'Sullevan's
>march in this direction with the intention of going to confer with O'Neill
>then in the fastness of Glenconkeine (Ballynascreen) hastened with a body
>of the Queen's soldiers from Enniskillen to this ford to intercept
>O'Sullevan's passage, but the latter had crossed Bel-Tarbert before the
>former could reach it. (Vide Hist. Cathol. Fol.)
>
>
>
>Next in this letter - "Concerning the Church of Drumlane"
>Nancy Pfaff
>List Owner, IRL-CAVAN, IRL-MEATH
>

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