Clifton, County Cavan
Clifton is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Loughtee Lower, County Cavan, Ireland. The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename “Clochán” which means ‘A small beehive-shaped stone house”. It is bounded on the north & east by Aghavoher townland, on the south by Breandrum & Berrymount townlands and on the west by Mullynagolman townland. Its chief geographical features are some small drumlin hills reaching to 300 feet above sea-level.
Clifton is traversed by Ardlougher lane.
The townland covers 82 statute acres. It formed part of the termon lands belonging to Tomregan Roman Catholic Church which were granted to the Protestant Bishop of Kilmore in 1610 as part of the Plantation of Ulster. By a lease dated 6 April 1612 the said bishop granted the lands to Sir Oliver Lambart of Kilbeggan, County Westmeath and Sir Garrett Moore of Mellifont, County Louth. On 17 July 1639 the bishop re-granted the lands to Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists the landlord of the townland as Jones & the tenants as Faris, Pringle and Griffith.[1] In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are four families listed in the townland.[2]
The only site of historical interest in the townland is a Bronze-Age ring-barrow on the border with Aghavoher (Site number 94, page 20, Aghavoher townland, in “Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan”, Patrick O’Donovan, 1995)