As far as I can recall these are townland / areas in Owney that have an entry in the Civil Survey of 1654-56 and the Hearth Money Rolls of 1665-66-67 and also feature a person that was listed for Transplantation to Connacht.
Saturday, 15 November 2025
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Book of Survey and Distribution - Owney & Owneybeg
Book of Survey & Distribution - Owney.xlsx
Books of Survey and Distribution: Killoscully and Killcomonty Parishes - Virtual Treasury
Books of Survey and Distribution: Killmillane & Killniragh Parishes - Virtual Treasury
Books of Survey and Distribution: County Limrick: Outhnebegg Barony [Owneybeg] - Virtual Treasury
More Civil Survey Notes -
Civil Survey Notes - Derryleigh
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Knockmeale (Owney & Arra) and Ned of the Hill - Possible Connections?
In the Four Tipperary Septs pg 80 it says
"An inquisition taken at Clonmel on Sept. 10th. 1633 found that Daniel Ryan late of Knockmoell in Co. Tipperary was seised in fee of the 6th part of one carucate of land at Knockmoell and died on May the 10th. 1630. That Edmond Ryan was his son and heir, of full age and married. The lands were held in capite and by knight's service.
Probably from Edmond descended Eamon an Chnoic or Edmond of the Hill a noted Rapparee whose name and exploits are still preserved among the inhabitants of the district where he held at bay for several years in his mountain fastness the forces endeavouring to capture or hill him.
He was born at Athcanboy in the parish of Upperchurch at the foot of Knockalough mountain and being intended for the priesthood was educated on the Continent from where he returned at the beginning of the war of 1689".
A word of caution however is, how did Cahalan link this Daniel Ryan to Ned of the Hill other than he had a son named Edmond?
I had always assumed that Knockmoell was close to Ashanboy. However it may in fact be located near Killoscully.
This appears to be Knockmoell now Knockmeale - An Cnoc Maol/Knockmeale | logainm.ie
In the Civil Survey
we can see the landowners in Knockmoyle including Edmond Ryan of Ballyourigane.
Previously I wrote about this Edmond Ryan here -
https://thetipperaryantiquarian.blogspot.com/2024/11/civil-survey-notes-ballyhourigan.html
He may have survived being transplanted to Connacht to be included in the Hearth Money Rolls of the 1660s.
According to Lenihan, it was at Ballyhourigan that Sarsfield's men camped in 1691 and "it is said was visited by one of the old O'Ryans of that country who offered him hospitality". (pg232 "Limerick and its Antiquities".
Could it have also been here that they picked up their scout Ned of the Hill who took over the scouting from Galloping O'Hogan? Knockmeale to Ballyhourigan are less than 2kms apart.
Sunday, 9 November 2025
Lost Rock Art at Coumbeg, Portroe, Co. Tipperary
Back in 2022 I received a newspaper cutting from a friend of mine, Joe Ryan Cooper about a bit of lost rock art in the Arra area. He said along the lines of, you probably already know about this one but just sending it on anyway! I didn't and I hadn't heard of it!
The newspaper was the Nenagh Guardian and it referred to an article by Maurice Lenihan in the Tipperary Vindicator / Limerick Reporter.
I wrote a detailed article about it in the Annals of Arra Vol. 5 under the title "Alleged Megalith in Coumbeg".
I have since knocked on doors and walked a lot of the townland looking for this possible rock art, to no avail.
Recently AI has been able to generate images from sketches and I thought it might be interesting to see what the sketch of it would look like in "real" life.
Here is it -
Created using Google Gemini
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