Carrigallen (barony)

Carrigallen barony takes its name from the village of Carrigallen ({{Langx|ga|Carraig Álainn}}, "beautiful stone").{{Cite web | url=http://www.logainm.ie/en/1416695 | title=Carraig Álainn/Carrigallen}}

Carrigallen is found in southeast County Leitrim, stretching from Bencroy to Garadice Lough to Gulladoo Lough.

Carrigallen barony is bordered to the west by Drumahaire and Leitrim; to the south by Mohill (all the preceding baronies are also in County Leitrim); to the north by Tullyhaw, County Cavan; to the east by Tullyhunco, County Cavan; to the southeast by Longford and Granard, County Longford.

The Mag Dorchaidh (Darcy) were chiefs of Cenél-Luachain in the modern parish of Oughteragh. The MacRannall chiefs held much of this barony as part of the territory called Conmaicne Mag Rein.{{Cite web | url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/baronie3.htm | title=The Baronies of Ireland - Family History}} During at least the 19th and 20th centuries, three annual fairs were held at Longfield townland on – 16 May, 10 October, and 27 December, while four annual fairs were held at Carrigallen on- 7 May, 9 August, 8 October, and 31 December.{{sfn|Longman|1819|pp=405}}

There are a number of medieval artifacts from Carrigallen barony preserved in a collection at the Royal Irish Academy museum in Dublin. A small medieval brooch-pin with highly decorated penannular rings was found on the bed of the Yellow river near the Ballyduff Bridge near Ballinamore, Oughteragh parish in county Leitrim,{{sfn|Wilde|1857|pp=585}} and a bronze medieval sword blade was found in the crevice of a rock on the same river, the blade being perfect, with a broad leaf pattern, bevel edge, handle-piece welded, six rivet-holes on the handle (two not through), with hilt notches, measures {{convert|0.46|m|1}} long by {{convert|3.2|cm|1}} width.{{sfn|Wilde|1857|pp=472}}{{sfn|Mulvany|Fraser|Roberts|Mulvany|1852|pp=lix}} A Celt was found in the bed of the river at Ballyheedy bridge, at Ardrum downland near Ballinamore in county Leitrim, a good long narrow specimen, of bright yellow bronze, triangular shaped, flat-surfaced, and roughly decorated with a hammered fan-tailed ornament radiating towards the blade.{{sfn|Wilde|1857|pp=406}}

Below is a list of settlements in Carrigallen barony:

• Ballinamore
• Carrigallen

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|title=Traveller's New Guide Through Ireland, Containing a New and Accurate Description of the Roads

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|title=A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities … in the Museum of the Royal Irish academy

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|last1=Mulvany

|first2=William

|last2=Fraser

|first3=Samuel

|last3=Roberts

|first4=Thomas J.

|last4=Mulvany

|first5=John

|last5=O'Flaherty

|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy|volume=5 (1850 - 1853)|pages= xxxi–lxvi

|publisher=Royal Irish Academy

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{{County Leitrim}}

Category:Baronies of County Leitrim