Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin
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Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin, the Second, (anglicised Felim or Phelim McGovern) d. 20 January 1622, was head of the McGovern dynasty and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from before 1611 until his death on 20 January 1622.
Ancestry
His male pedigree was Feidhlimidh son of Brian son of Tomás (died 1532) son of Maghnus (died 1497) son of Tomás Óg (died 1494) son of Tomás na Feasoige (died 1458) son of Fearghal (died 1393) son of Tomás (died 1343) son of
Elizabethan Fiants
Mág Samhradháin first comes to notice on 19 January 1586 when Queen
Jacobean Fiants
On 30 April 1605 King James VI and I granted a further pardon to him as Phelim McGaran of Tolaghagh, for fighting against the King's forces.[3]
Coologe Castle
Mág Samhradháin's castle was formerly in the townland of
Lordship
On the death of his brother
The race of Samhradhan of small Boolies' [dairies].
And they all with little food;
A horde to whom the music of the fly is sweet;
A shamrock is in the mouth of every one of them.[7]
Plantation of Ulster
In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 29 April 1611, King James VI and I granted the modern day townlands of Ballymagauran, Ballymagirril, Boley, Templeport, Camagh, Derrycassan, Gortaclogher, Gortnaleck, Killymoriarty, Killywillin, Porturlan and Sruhagh, to Phelim Magawran, but it is probable that the lands had been in the possession of the Mág Samhradháin dynasty for several hundred years before this and it was just a Surrender and regrant confirming the existing title to the McGoverns.[8]
Ballymagauran Castle
Under the terms of the Ulster Plantation grant, Feidhlimidh was obliged to build a new castle in Ballymagauran. In a visitation by Lord Carew in autumn 1611 he states that "Magauran had his own land given him on this division".[9] By 1613, Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin had progressed with building work. Sir Josias Bodley reported on 6 February 1613-"Proportion No. 31: 1,000 acres. Magauran is strongly seated, and near to his Irish house by a lough's side hath begun an English building of lime and stone of 40 feet long and 20 broad, not yet raised above the first story, but with this season intendeth to set it forward: There is round about it a trench and dike of earth and sod, which with little labour may be made of good strength, and that, it seemeth, by his beginning, he hath a purpose to do."[10]
By 1619 Pynnar's Survey of Land Holders found that Mág Samhradháin had built a castle on his holdings.[11]
Family and death
Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin had at least two sons, Brian Magauran and Giolla na Naomh Magauran.
An Inquisition of King Charles I of England held in Cavan town on 4 October 1626 stated that the aforesaid Phelim Magawrane died on 20 January 1622 and his lands went to his son Brian who succeeded him as head of the lineage. Brian was aged thirty (born 1592) and married to Mary O'Brien.[12] According to local tradition Feidhlimidh is buried on Inch Island in Templeport Lough.[13]
A survey taken at Ballymagauran in August 1622 stated that- "Brian Magauran hath 1,000 acres in which is a bawn of sodds and within it a stone howse thatched, with chymneys and a part of it lofted. He setts his land from yeare to yeare to ye Irish, who plowgh by ye taile."
The castle that Mág Samhradháin erected after 1611 was besieged and destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's army in 1649. Sir William Petty's Down Survey map of 1659 shows the castle in the townland of Dromkirke with inscription "Stone house in repair".[14]
References
- ^ M.V. Duignan (1934), "The Ui Briúin Bréifni genealogies", pp. 90–137, in JRSAI Vol. LXIV
- ^ "Full text of "The ... report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland / presented to both houses of the Parliament by command of Her Majesty"". 1882. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Chancery, Ireland (1800). Calendar of the Patent Rolls of the Chancery of Ireland. - (Dublin 1800.) (angl.) 372 S. p. 43. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Site number 361 in "Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan", Patrick O'Donovan, 1995
- ^ L. McKenna (1947), The Book of Magauran
- ^ "Annála Connacht". ucc.ie. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "The tribes of Ireland : a satire : O'Daly, Aengus, d 1617 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Chancery, Ireland (1800). Calendar of the Patent Rolls of the Chancery of Ireland. - (Dublin 1800.) (angl.) 372 S. p. 211. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Lambeth Palace Library; Totnes, G.C.E.; Brewer, J.S.; Bullen, W. (1873). Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts: Miscellaneous papers: The book of Howth. The conquest of Ireland, by Thomas Bray, etc. Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer. p. 96. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Survey of Undertakers in Co. of Cavan 6 Feb. 1613- Tullaghagh Servitors, in Report of Manuscripts of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London 1947, vol. IV, p. 164.
- ISBN 9780940134652.
- ^ Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium. command of his majesty King George IV. In pursuance of an address of the house of Commons of Great Britain (an Ireland). 1829. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Full text of "Notes and queries"". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Trinity College Dublin: The Down Survey of Ireland.