THE TOWNLAND OF DRUMGAW

The townland of Drumgaw is in the parish of Lisnadill in Armagh County. It is labelled number 18 on the map.

Paterson (Armachiana, Vol. 16, p.21) notes:

Drum (Druim) [meaning 'ridge'] is one of the most common names and figures as a prefix to about 2,400 places besides an equal number in which it is combined.

The Environment and Heritage Service Sites and Monuments Record (2002) notes the following in this townland:

Enclosure of uncertain period
SMR NO: ARM 016:004
Irish Grid Reference: H89304260
Townland: DRUMGAW
CONDITION: No visible remains
A circular "Fort" c.40m in diameter is shown on the OS 6" map of 1835. It was located on the top of a drumlin in an area which now provides good grazing. No visible traces of the site remain.

Rath of the Early Christian Period and landscape feature of the Eighteenth Century/Nineteenth Century.
SMR NO: ARM 016:005
Irish Grid Reference: H89854204
Townland: DRUMGAW
CONDITION: some remains
The interior of this circular earthwork has been built up c.1.3m on the NE to counteract the natural slope & create a level platform 39m in diam. It in enclosed on N, E & S by a steep sided bank surmounted by a hedge & beyond this by a recut ditch. At W, the perimeter has been levelled & only a slight scarp survives. The bank is most substantial on S where it is c.3.5m wide & O.9m high above the interior. The ditch also varies - 3m x 0.6 m deep at S to less that 2m wide at NE. See SM7 for further details.

Ecclesiastical site (church and graveyard) of uncertain period
SMR NO: ARM 016:062
Irish Grid Reference: H89954260
Townland: KILLYCAPPLE, DRUMGAW
CONDITION: no visible remains
The area has been generally improved. The hill slopes down to the N/NW but gives way to a relatively level platform bounded by the river at N & the stream at W. There are no surface indications of a church. The platform could easily have accomodated an E-W structure.
BILIOGRAPHY:
PATERSON, T. G. F. NOTES, Vol. 135

Enclosure of uncertain period
SMR NO: ARM 016:070
Irish Grid Reference: H8942
Townland: DRUMGAW
Not precisely located.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
PATERSON, T. G. F. NOTES, Vol. 135

PRONI records: D.3478 (Marriage settlement between Arthur Graham and Penelope Ligonier.); D.1607/12; [see also D.1607/14] (Property of representatives of James McCullough and William Simpson: rentals, accounts and correspondence [reps W.H. Edwards and Miss Ethel Edwards].); D.943/2 (Graham estate.); OS/6/2/12/1 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835.); OS/6/2/12/2 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1860. Engraved 1860 (Stat file copy).); OS/6/2/12/3 (Not Received.); OS/6/2/12/4 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1905-06. Reprinted 1931-1947. Published 1931 with mss markings in red and stamped references 2566, 2567, 2573.); OS/6/2/12/5 (Surveyed 1906. Revised 1948. Levelled 1888 and 1906. Levels revised 1949. Published 1953. (2 copies) - 1 being reprint 1953, 56, 61).); OS/6/2/16/1 (Surveyed 1834-35. Engraved 1835.); OS/6/2/16/2 (Surveyed 1834-35. Engraved 1835. Revised 1860. Engraved 1862.); OS/6/2/16/3 (Surveyed 1834-35. Revised 1906. Levelled 1888-89 and 1906. Published 1908. Reprint 1952, 1954.); OS/6/2/16/4 (Surveyed 1834-35. Revised 1906. Levelled 1888-89 and 1906. Published 1908. Reprint 1929.); OS/6/2/16/5 (Surveyed 1834-35. Revised 1906. Levelled 1888-89 and 1906. Published 1908. Reprint 1952, 1954 with Mss. markings in red and stamped ref. 2568.); OS/6/2/16/6 (Surveyed 1906. Revised 1955. Levelled 1906. Published 1958. (2 copies).); VAL/1B/29A, VAL/1B/211 (1st valuation records.); VAL/12B/10/29A, VAL/12B/10/29B, VAL/12B/10/29C, VAL/12B/10/29D (Valuation annual revision list.); VAL/2B/2/12B (Griffith valuation list.); T.579/55 (Landed estates rental.29 Jan. 1869).

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