Cor (from Irish: either Cor meaning 'A Smooth Hill' or Corr meaning 'A Hollow') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw.
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Geography
Cor is bounded on the north by Kilsallagh and Keenagh, Templeport townlands, on the west by Port, Templeport townland, on the south by Cloneary townland and on the east by Lissanover townland. Its chief geographical features are a stream, a plantation, a spring well and a stone quarry.
Cor is traversed by minor roads and rural lanes.
The townland covers 153 statute acres.
History
The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Corr.
The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as Corre.
William Petty's map of 1685 depicts it as Core.
An 1809 map of the ecclesiastical lands in Templeport depicts it as Curr.
On 19 January 1586 Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a pardon (No. 4813) to Manus Oge M'Manus M'Thomas Magawran of Coor for fighting against the Queen's forces. The said Manus Og McGovern was the grandson of Tomas Mág Samhradháin who was chief of the McGovern Clan from 1512 to 1532. His son Hugh was granted land in Crossmakelagher and Bofealan in 1611 under the Plantation of Ulster.
In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 26 June 1615, King James VI and I granted, inter alia, two polls in Cor to Sir George Graeme and Sir Richard Graeme to form part of the Manor of Greame. An Inquisition held at Cavan Town on 31st October 1627 found that George Greames was seized of one poll in Corr and he died 9 October 1624. By his will dated 1 May 1615 he left his lands to his son and heir William Greames then 30 years old (born 1594) and unmarried. After the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 the Graham family were still in possession of Cor.
In the Hearth Money Rolls of 1662 there were four people paying the Hearth Tax in- Corr- Rosse McMahon, Andrew Lowther, Phelemy McRodan and Shane McEvina.
The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list two tithepayers in the townland of Corville.
Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists seven landholders in the townland.
In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are five families listed in the townland, and in the 1911 census of Ireland, there are six families listed in the townland.
Antiquities
The chief structures of historical interest in the townland are
- An earthen ringfort.
- Corville House[6]
- A bronze Early Iron Age ring-headed pin[7]