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Toberlyan (from Irish: Tobar Laighin, meaning either 'St Leynie's Well' or "The Well of the Spear") 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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Map of Toberlyan, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Geography
Toberlyan is bounded on the north by Corran townland, on the west by Derrycassan townland, on the south by Coologe townland and on the east by Toberlyan Duffin townland. Its chief geographical features are Coologe Lough, a stream and a stone quarry. Toberlyan is traversed by minor roads and rural lanes.
The townland covers 172 statute acres.
History
Until the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, Toberlyan formed part of the modern townland of Coologe, as one of its subdivisions. Therefore Toberlyan is not depicted on the 1609 Baronial or 1665 Down Survey maps or appears in the land grants before 1652.
The McGovern lands in Coologe were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and the Toberlyan land was distributed as follows-
A grant dated 30 January 1668 from King Charles II to Maurice McJelbredy included one pole in Tubenleene.
In the 1825 Registry of Freeholders for County Cavan there was one freeholder registered in Toberlyan- John Dunn. He was a Forty-shilling freeholders holding a lease for lives from his landlord, Mr. R. Hinds.[6]
The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list forty eight tithepayers in the townland.
Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists fourteen landholders in the townland.
In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are five families listed in the townland.
In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are five families listed in the townland.