{{Short description|Townland in County Cavan, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2021}} '''Drumcase''' (Irish derived place name, Droim Catha meaning 'The Hill-Ridge of the Battle'.<ref name="Logainm"/>) is a townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland. It is also called Drumrath (Irish derived place name, Droim Ráth meaning 'The Hill-Ridge of the Fort’).
==Geography==
Drumcase is bounded on the north by Cloncose, Glasstown and Gortnacleigh townlands, on the east by Drumerdannan townland, on the west by Gorteen (Gorteenagarry) townland and on the south by Clooneen townland. Its chief geographical features are Drumcase Hill which reaches a height of 302 feet, small streams and spring wells. Drumcase is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 84 acres.<ref name="IreAtlas"/>
==Etymology==
The 1609 Plantation of Ulster Map depicts the townland as ''Dromcagh''.<ref name="cavantownlands">{{cite web|url=http://cavantownlands.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1609-hi_Clonyn.jpg|title=Image: 1609-hi_Clonyn.jpg, (815 × 1286 px)|website=cavantownlands.com|accessdate=20 August 2018|archive-date=16 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916202048/http://cavantownlands.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1609-hi_Clonyn.jpg|url-status=dead}}</ref> A government grant of 1610 spells the name as ''Dromragh''. A 1629 Inquisition spells the name as ''Dromrath otherwise called Dromcha'', ''Drumcache'' and ''Dromcache''. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the name as ''Dromkah''.
==History==
From medieval times up to the early 1600s, the land belonged to the McKiernan Clan.
In the Plantation of Ulster King James VI and I by grant dated 23 July 1610 granted the Manor of Clonyn or Taghleagh, which included one poll of '''Dromragh''', to Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick, Scotland.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium|date=1829|publisher=command of his majesty King George IV. In pursuance of an address of the house of Commons of Great Britain (an Ireland)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC&pg=PR120|accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref> On 29 July 1611 Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester and others reported that - ''{{lang|en-emodeng|Sir Alexander Hamilton, Knt, 2,000 acres in the county of Cavan; has not appeared: his son Claud took possession, and brought three servants and six artificers; is in hand with building a mill; trees felled; raised stones and hath competitent arms in readiness. Besides there are arrived upon that portion since our return to Dublin from the journey, as we are informed, twelve tenants and artificers who intend to reside there and build upon the same}}''.<ref name="archive">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/calendarofcarewm06lambiala#page/78/mode/2up|website=archive.org|title=Calendar of the Carew manuscripts, preserved in the archi-episcopal library at Lambeth ..|accessdate=20 August 2018}}</ref> An Inquisition held at Cavan on 10 June 1629 stated that the poll of '''Dromrath otherwise called Dromcha''' contained five sub-divisions named ''Curardinpourt, Knockbeache, Coullan, Tawnahinfin and Largan''. It also describes the boundaries of Drumcase as- ''{{lang|en-emodeng|Drumcache bounding upon the to Knocknehorna parcell of Feache, on the northwest, and from thence southward to a holl in the woode called Leagyveaghe, Englished the 'wheyholle', and from thence all southward to Drombo, all boundinge with the Feache upon the west, being termont lande, meered with a drye meere all thorow the wood betwixt the said Drumcache and Feache}}''.<ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium|date=1829|publisher=command of his majesty King George IV. In pursuance of an address of the house of Commons of Great Britain (an Ireland)|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC&dq=disert&pg=PR120|pages=5–6|accessdate=20 August 2018}}</ref>
The 1652 Commonwealth Survey states the owner was Sir Francis Hamilton and describes it as wasteland.
The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as ''Drumcase''.<ref name="cavanlibrary">{{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=6 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406193619/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}}</ref>
The 1825 Tithe Applotment Books list four tithepayers in the townland.<ref name="nationalarchives">{{cite web|url= http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?county=Meath&parish=Kildallan&townland=Drumcase&search=Search |title=The Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-37|accessdate=20 August 2018}}</ref>
The Drumcase Valuation Office books are available for April 1838.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Census National Archives |url=http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246947_00496.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250219231714/http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246947_00496.pdf |archive-date=2025-02-19 |access-date=2026-05-26 |website=census.nationalarchives.ie}}</ref>
Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists four landholders in the townland.<ref>[http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&PlaceID=193618&county=Cavan&barony=Tullyhunco&parish=Kildallan&townland=%3Cb%3EDrumcase%3C/b%3E website=askaboutireland.ie]</ref>
The landlord of Drumcase in the 19th century was Hugh Wallace.
==Census==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Population ! Males ! Females ! Total Houses ! Uninhabited |- | 1841 || 33 || 14 || 19 || 5 || 1 |- | 1851 || 18 || 10 || 8 || 4 || 1 |- | 1861 || 17 || 11 || 6 || 3 || 0 |- | 1871 || 18 || 9 || 9 || 3 || 0 |- | 1881 || 13 || 6 || 7 || 4 || 1 |- | 1891 || 14 || 6 || 8 || 3 || 0
|}
In the 1901 census of Ireland, there were five families listed in the townland.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Killeshandra/Drumcase/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1901|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=19 October 2016}}</ref>
In the 1911 census of Ireland, there were two families listed in the townland.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Killashandra/Drumcase/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=19 October 2016}}</ref>
==Antiquities==
# A foot-bridge across a stream.
==References== <references>
<ref name="Logainm">{{Cite web |url= https://www.logainm.ie/en/5076?s=drumcase|title=Placenames Database of Ireland - Drumcase|accessdate=29 February 2012}}</ref>
<ref name="IreAtlas">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/ |title=IreAtlas |accessdate=29 February 2012}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== * [http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/ The IreAtlas Townland Data Base]
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Category:Townlands of County Cavan