Ned, Tullyhunco

{{short description|Townland in Killeshandra, Ireland}}

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Ned (Irish derived place name, Nead meaning 'A Nest'.) is a townland in the civil parish of Killeshandra, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland.

Geography

Ned is bounded on the west by Clooncose, Cornasker, Corracar and Lugnagon townlands, on the south by Drumleevan townland and on the east by Cornahaia, Drumercross and Raleagh townlands. Its chief geographical features are Ned North Hill which reaches a height of 349 feet, Ned South Hill which reaches a height of 307 feet, small streams, forestry plantations and spring wells. Ned is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 323 acres.

History

The 1609 Plantation of Ulster Map depicts the townland as Anead.{{Cite web|url=http://cavantownlands.com/dronge-1609-bodley-map/|title=Dronge 1609 Bodley Map | Cavan Townlands|date=28 December 2015 }} A grant of 1611 spells the name as Neade. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells it as Nedd. A 1661 Inquisition spells it as The Nedd.

From medieval times up to the early 1600s, the land belonged to the McKiernan Clan. About the year 1600 it was owned by Thomas McKiernan, along with the townlands of Bellaheady, Greaghacholea or Coraghmuck and Doogary, all in Tullyhunco Barony. Thomas died some time before 1611 and his lands were inherited by his son Owen McKiernan. Owen was worried that his lands would be confiscated under the Plantation of Ulster so he made representations to the Lords of the Council in Whitehall, London. They in turn sent the following note to Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, the Lord Deputy of Ireland- April 30, 1610. Recommend to his favourable consideration in the settlement of the natives, the bearer, Owen Carnan, who sued for 800 acres of land lying in the county of Cavan, which have belonged (as he informs them) to his father, uncle, & others his predecessors, time out of mind, without any attainder for matter of disloyalty.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IT5gAAAAcAAJ&q=%22owen+carnan%22&pg=PA441|title=Calendar of the State Papers, Relating to Ireland, of the Reign of James I.: Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, and Elsewhere. 1608 - 1610|date=11 April 1874|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer|via=Google Books}} Owen McKiernan was only partly successful in his claim as in the Plantation of Ulster, by grant dated 4 June 1611, King James VI and I granted 100 acres or 2 poles of land in Tullyhunco at an annual rent of £1 1s. 4d., to Wony McThomas McKernan, comprising the modern-day townlands of Ned, Doogary and Coraghmuck.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD5JAAAAcAAJ&dq=neade&pg=PA211 |title=Calendar of the Patent Rolls of the Chancery of Ireland. - (Dublin 1800 ... |page=211 |accessdate=2016-12-09|last1=Chancery |first1=Ireland |year=1800 }} Owen McKiernan then sold the townland to Walter Talbot of Ballyconnell who then by deed dated 11 February 1614 sold the poll of Nedd to Sir Stephen Butler of Belturbet.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC&q=%22Inquisitionum+in+Officio+Rotulorum%22+nedd+-need+-ned&pg=PA3|title=Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium|date=11 April 1829|publisher=command of his majesty King George IV. In pursuance of an address of the house of Commons of Great Britain (an Ireland)|via=Google Books}} Some of the McKiernans of Ned emigrated to the USA and their notable descendants included Senator Francis Kernan and General William Kernan.[http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000125851] The Utica Kernans: descendants of Bryan Kernan, gentleman, of the townland of Ned in the parish of Killeshandra, barony of Tullyhunco, county of Cavan, Province of Ulster, Kingdom of Ireland [http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000172459] Supplement to The Utica Kernans: descendants of Bryan Kernan, gentleman, of the townland of Ned in the parish of Killeshandra, Barony of tullyhunco, County of Cavan, Province of Ulster, Kingdom of Ireland, 1968-1993 by John Devereux Kernan

After the Irish Rebellion of 1641 concluded, the townland was confiscated in the Cromwellian Settlement and the 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists it as belonging to John Pyman. An Inquisition held at Belturbet on 12 June 1661{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC&q=%22the+nedd%22+%22Inquisitionum+in+Officio+Rotulorum%22++-ned&pg=PA9|title=Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium|date=11 April 1829|publisher=command of his majesty King George IV. In pursuance of an address of the house of Commons of Great Britain (an Ireland)|via=Google Books}} stated that John Pyman, a shopkeeper late of Belturbet, was owner of a poll of land called The Nedd, containing 100 acres and he granted said land to William Cotten on 31 May 1653. John Pyman died on 30 September 1657 and William Cotten was in possession in 1661.

In the Hearth Money Rolls compiled on 29 September 1663The Hearth Money Rolls for the Baronies of Tullyhunco and Tullyhaw, County Cavan, edited by Rev. Francis J. McKiernan, in Breifne Journal. Vol. I, No. 3 (1960), pp. 247-263 there were two Hearth Tax payers in Nedd- John Greenan and Hugh Greenan.

In the 18th century Ned came into the possession of the Hinds family. Walter Hinds (1703-1777) of Corrakane left a will dated 5 Aug 1777 and proved on 18 July 1778. His Estate was large and he named eight beneficiaries, including Martha (Faris) Hinds, Ralph Hinds, Walter Hinds, John Hinds, William Hinds, Thomas Hinds, Anne Hinds and Mary (Hinds) Clarke. He left Ned to his son Ralph as follows- To Ralph Hinds, his eldest son, the lands of Toberlion, Meelick and Duffin and the responsibility to pay his (Ralph's) brother John an annual income of £40. Also to Ralph, and to his heirs forever, the lands of Nedd and Carnagee, and £1000 to be paid out of his father's effects together with two score of the best bullocks on the lands which he is to enjoy after his father's decease.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heatonbrown.com/p155.htm|title=Genealogy Brick Walls - Person Page|website=www.heatonbrown.com}} A marriage settlement dated 3 February 1784 contained, inter alia, the lands of Nedd.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heatonbrown.com/p175.htm#i4134|title=Genealogy Brick Walls - Person Page|website=www.heatonbrown.com}} The will of Ralph Hinds dated 15 April 1794 and proved on 10 May 1794 included, inter alia, Nedd in the County of Cavan.

The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as Nedd.{{cite web|url=http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/The-Carvaghs-A-List-Of-The-Several-Baronies-And-Parishes-in-the-County-Of-Cavan.pdf|date=7 October 2011|title=The Carvaghs|accessdate=20 August 2018|archive-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123035505/http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/The-Carvaghs-A-List-Of-The-Several-Baronies-And-Parishes-in-the-County-Of-Cavan.pdf|url-status=dead}}

In the 1825 Registry of Freeholders for County Cavan there were two freeholders registered in Nedd- Thomas Bannan and John McCormick. They were both Forty-shilling freeholders, holding a lease for lives from their landlord, Ralph Hinds.http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/Registry-of-Freeholders-in-the-County-of-Cavan.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115190841/http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/file/Local-Studies/Library-Scanned-Docs/Registry-of-Freeholders-in-the-County-of-Cavan.pdf |date=15 November 2017 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

The 1825 Tithe Applotment Books list fifteen tithepayers in the townland.{{cite web|url=http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?county=Cavan&parish=Killashandra&townland=Knedd&search=Search|website=titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie|title=The Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-37|accessdate=20 August 2018}}

The Ned Valuation Office Field books are available for December 1837.http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246947_00654.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246947_00655.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246947_00656.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

In 1855 the landlord of Ned, Charlotte Hinds, was murdered.Land trouble in Templeport 1855 by Rev. Dan Gallogly, in Breifne Journal, Vol. 5, No. 19 (1979), p.382.http://www.heatonbrown.com/hinds-charlotte-murder.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.heatonbrown.com/p150.htm|title=Genealogy Brick Walls - Person Page|website=www.heatonbrown.com}}

Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists forty landholders in the townland.{{cite web|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&PlaceID=193472&county=Cavan&barony=Tullyhunco&parish=Killashandra&townland=%3Cb%3ENed%3C/b%3E|website=askaboutireland.ie|title=Griffith's Valuation|accessdate=20 August 2018}}

On 17 March 1871 a rent-charge on the land belonging to the Hinds family was sold by the Landed Estates Court, including on The lands of Nedd.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdcQAAAAYAAJ&q=millick+hinds&pg=PA192|title=The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal|date=11 April 1871|publisher=John Falconer|via=Google Books}}

Census

class="wikitable"
Year

! Population

! Males

! Females

! Total Houses

! Uninhabited

1841212110102441
18511577978382
18611145757271
18711055352250
18811065551211
1891904743190

In the Census of Ireland, 1841 there were 63 families listed in the townland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1841/Cavan/Tullyhunco/Killashandra/Ned/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911|website=www.census.nationalarchives.ie}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1841/Cavan/Tullyhunco/Killeshandra/Ned/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911|website=www.census.nationalarchives.ie}}

In the Census of Ireland, 1901, there were twenty families listed in the townland.{{cite web|url= http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Doogary/Ned/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1901|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=19 October 2016}}

In the 1911 census of Ireland, there were eighteen families listed in the townland.{{cite web|url= http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Doogary/Ned/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=19 October 2016}}

Antiquities

  1. A foot-stick over a stream.

References

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{{Cite web |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/4016|title=Placenames Database of Ireland - Ned|accessdate=29 February 2012}}

{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/ |title=IreAtlas |accessdate=29 February 2012}}

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