Place-names in Ireland

Places derived from the Name Mulligan in Ireland




County Down

Townland of Lisnamulligan, Lios Ua Maolegáin

Clonduff civil parish, barony of Iveagh Upper and diocese of Dromore

The Inquisition of James I, dated at Ardquin 4 July, 1605, records the earliest form of Lisnamulligan as Ballibysewollegan. It belonged to the vicarage of Clonduff, one of the churches appended to the Abbey of Bangor. In the Inquisition, William O’Dornan, late abbot of St. Augustine of Bangor in the Great Ardes, at the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII being possessed of the rectory and advowson of Clonduff in Evagh, alias Magennis’ country. It was later granted to Sir Arthur Magennis of Rathfryland. In the patents rolls of James I, it appears as Ballylisomoylegan in 1609, Lissiwilligan alias Dromeneskawghie in 1611, and Ballylisamoylegan in 1612. In the patent rolls of Charles I, is Ballylissomoylegan in 1629, and as Lissoweelegan in 1639. In the Census of Ireland c.1659, is written as Lissomcy Vigan. Following the Acts of Settlement in 1662, William Barker received a patent grant on 3 June, 1667, and enrolled 11 June, 1667, of the lands of Lismulligan alias Lismoylegan. It amounted to 265 acres 2 roods part of which 80 acres was unprofitable. In it original Irish form the place-names was probably known as Ua Maolagain’s fort.

Sources:
1. Hardiman, James (ed): Inquisitionum in officio Rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium, (Dublin 1829), Vol. II Down, James I, no. 2.
2. Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimilie of the Irish Record Commission’s calendar prepared to 1830 by James Morrin, and forwarded by M. C. Griffith (Dublin, 1966), p.189a, 235a and 395b.
3. Hardiman, James (ed): Inquisitionum in officio Rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium, (Dublin 1829), Vol. II Down, Charles I, no. 13 and 85.
4. Pender, Seamus (ed): Census of Ireland circa 1659 (Dublin, 1939), p. 76.
5. Lodge, John: Abstracts of grants of lands and other hereditaments under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation 1666 to 1664, in the Fifteenth Report of Irish Royal Commission (Dublin, 1825), p. 91a.


County Londonderry

Townland of Ballymulligan

Artrea parish, barony of Loughlinsholin and diocese of Derry

This townland is spelt as Ba: O Mulgan in the ‘Schedules of the lands in Ulster allotted to the London Livery Companies’ in 1613. ‘Ba’ is shortened for Bally. In the Charter of Londonderry (1613), it is written as Ballyomillagan and is described as being in the barony of Loughinsholin in the ‘middle proportion of called Ballinemanagh, in the territory of Killetragh. Prior to the plantation, this territory belonged to the Hugh McShane of Killetragh also known as the McShane-O’Neills branch of the Con MacShane O’Neill. It was granted to the Company of Salters in London in 1613. In Phillips MSS (Maps) of 1622, it is Ba: Omulghan; Civil Survey of 1654, Balliomullegan; and Census of Ireland c.1659, Ballymulligan. It was standardised to Ballymulligan with 'O' dropped.

Sources:
1. Moody, T.W.: Schedules of the lands in Ulser allotted to the London Livery Companies, 1613 in Analecta Hibernica (The Irish Manuscript Commission), No. 8 (March, 1938), p. 308.
2, Hill, Rev. George: An Historical Account of the Plantation of Ulster (Belfast, 1877), p.390.
3. A brief survey of the estate of the Plantation of the County of Londonderry by Sir Thomas Phillips and Richard Hadsor, Esq. 1622 (published by HMSO, Belfast, 1928), plated 26.
4. Simington, Robert C.: The Civil Survey, AD 1654-1656, Counties Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone, Irish Manuscript Commission (Dublin, 1937), Vol. III, p. 171.
5. Pender, Seamus (ed): Census of Ireland circa 1659 (Dublin, 1939), p. 138.

Finglen Omulligan

Ballynascreen Parish, barony of Loughlinsholin and diocese of Derry

This lost name is mentioned in The Civil Survey 1654-1656, and is spelt as ffinglen-o Mullegan, Finniglen Omulligan and Finnyglen Omullan. It was boundary marker that divided the parish of Bodony in the barony of Strabane and County Tyrone, and the parish of Ballynascreen, where Finglen Omulligan was located.

Source
Simington, Robert C.: The Civil Survey, AD 1654-1656, Counties Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone, Irish Manuscript Commission (Dublin, 1937), Vol. III, p. 168, 372 and 374.




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