A ruined Castle stands in the Townland
of Teredagh, proper Tir-Riada.
Another ruined castle stands in the Townland of Foarmarle.
Another ruined castle stands in the Townland of Milltown (proper Moilinstown).
Another ruined castle called Lis-Aodha-Finn, i.e., the Fort of Hugh the Fair,
stands in the Townland of Lisafin. This and the Castle of Milltown remain in
good external preservation. In the list of castles preserved in MS. T.C.D., Class
E, 214 we find the following, including these mentioned above as situated in
this Parish:-
| 1 Tulla |
inhabited by |
(belonging to) Donell Reagh. |
| 2 Fertan and |
“ “ |
Donogh and Rory Macnamara. |
| 3 Garougharogh |
“ “ |
“ “ “ |
| 4 Lisafin |
“ “ |
Rory
Mac Mahoun. |
| 5 Lismeighan |
“ “ |
“ “ |
| 6 Fomarla and |
“ “ |
Tirelagh O’Brien. |
| 7 Tireadagh |
“ “ |
“ “ |
The following places mentioned in Hardiman’s
Irish Deeds are situated in this Parish, viz:-
- Baile-Ui-Mhaoilin (now Milltown). There are seven
Giants’ Graves on
this (in Milltown) Townland, one of them near Green’s house in perfect
preservation, of an irregular square form, serving as a pig-sty with a rick
of turf built over it at present. Another, a little to the northeast in a
field a little north of the road from Tulla to Ballyslattry, has the form
of an ordinary
grave (coffin) measuring nineteen feet six inches in length and four feet
five inches in breadth at the foot and six feet four inches in breadth at
the head,
the thickness of the stones all round being included in the measurement.
This was enclosed by a number of large stones, placed at a few feet distance
and
following the form of the grave. The grave on Sliabh Gearr near Glen Cullen
in the Co. Dublin, is of the same form with this as are some more in the
eastern Parishes of Clare.
These long coffin-like graves can hardly be supposed
to belong to the same people or period of time as the square, chest like
and sometimes
irregularly
formed monuments to be met with in several places, such as may be seen in
several parts of the Barony of Burren; near Conon’s (?) grave near
Mount Callan, at Cabinteely; Kilternan; Phoenix-Park, etc., in the Co.
Dublin and innumerable
other places.
An examination of the contents of these various kinds of graves would
be well worth the attention of the antiquary, to know if the mode
of sepulture be the
same in all. The other graves in this Townland demand no particular description.
- Baile-Ui-Shlatra (now New Grove).
- Feartan-Beg.
- Baile-Ui-Brain.
- Lios Miodhachain.
- Gleann Drith.
The above are all mentioned in Deed No. 15, which recites the Rental
of Mac Namara.
Baile-Ui-Shlatra (Newgrove) is mentioned also in Deed No. 18, which
is a deed of agreement between the Macnamaras and the Slatterys regarding
the said lands,
bearing date Anno 1493. The following reference to Tulla is from Archdall’s Monasticon:- Inquisition
27th Oct. 2, K. James finds that Macknymarrowe formerly of Dangine in this
County, gent., granted a quarter of land called Caherucottine
in said County to the Church of Tulloenynaspill in said County, to support
the Priest to say Mass and to administer Holy things therein. The said
grant having been made -contrary to the Statute of Mortmain, was forfeited
to the King and was of the annual value of 3d. English money, without
reprises. - (Rot. Canc.).
Tulla is mentioned in the Wars of Turlogh Ord.
Survey Copy, page 585, where it is written Tulach-na-n-Easbog or the Tulach
of the Bishops,
but this I take to be an error in the transcript from which the Ordnance
Survey Copy is made. |
