Knockaundarragh
Knockaundarragh in Irish “Cnocán Darach” meaning oak hillock according to Logainm is 328.28 acres or 132.85 hectares in size and is in the Electoral division of Marblehill.
Knockaundarragh borders Allykeolaun, Cullenagh, Drum and Drumkeary West.
What we recorded
- Placenames
- 18 (3 Irish-origin)
- 9 field
- 3 hill or hills
- 2 bog
- 2 stream
- 1 hole
- 1 mass path
- Houses
- 10
By type
Map
Placenames
| Name | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Potato Garden | field | |
| The White Garden | field | |
| The Kitchen Garden | field | |
| The Beech Garden | field | |
| The Back of the Barn | field | |
| The Baunoge’s | field | |
| The Bog Garden | field | |
| The Long Garden | field | |
| The Well Garden | field | |
| Connors’ Mire | bog | |
| Tommy’s Hill | hill or hills | |
| Bolley | bog | |
| The Tailor’s Stream | stream | |
| The Broken Gullet | stream | Location not exact. |
| Fahy’s Hill | hill or hills | |
| Johnny’s Hill | hill or hills | |
| Poll na gCaorach | hole | Pronounced “Powlnageerach”. |
| Mass Path | mass path | People from Cullenagh used to go to mass this way. |
Houses
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Spain’s House | |
| Connor’s House | Then Mickey Mannion’s. |
| Johnny Murphy’s House | |
| Tuohy’s House | |
| Mickey Mannion’s House | He moved from the house up above (Connor’s House) to here. |
| Gurley’s House | Built around 1910, this is newer than Gurley’s other house in this townland. |
| Gurley’s House | |
| Melia’s House? | Not sure of the exact location but it was somewhere around here. |
| Dolphin’s House | The Dolphins came down from Belfast. A family of two men and a woman lived here. They were deaf, and it was said that everyone in the village could use sign language. |
| Keating’s House |
Population
In the 1841 census there were 26 people and 4 houses and in the 1851 census there were 30 people and 5 houses. In 1901 there was a carpenter named Murphy and a tailor named Spain living in Knockaundarragh.
Land and Household Records
Landholders and heads of household recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books, Griffith’s Valuation, and the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses.
Tithe Applotment Books, 1834
Not yet compiled.
Griffith’s Valuation, 1856
Not yet compiled.
1901 census
Not yet compiled.
1911 census
Not yet compiled.
1926 census
- John Tuohy
- Michael Spain
- John Murphy
- Thomas Shiel
- Michael Connor
- John Gurley
- Honoria Dolphin