What is recorded here

Coonagh barony held a Wednesday market and fifteen-day summer fair under Otho de Grandison in 1299, but the cluster of dwellings drawn between Coonagh Castle and Castletown Church has vanished from the fields east of the Cahernahallia River. The settlement is not lost to time, only to recognition: its rooms, lanes and market noise withdrew into the land until the name coonagh itself became the remainder. What is missing is not the truth but the shape of the truth, which is why the place still demands to be imagined rather than measured.

The precise location of the medieval settlement depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh barony (NLI, MS 718) as a cluster of dwellings located between Coonagh Castle (LI025-002002-) and Castletown Church has not been identified. The deserted settlement appears to have been located in the fields to the E of the Cahernahallia River and Castletown Church (LI025-004001-). In 1299, King Edward I granted a licence to Otho de Grandison, for a 'weekly market on Wednesday at his manor of Octonagh [Coonagh] in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, and of a yearly fair there for fifteen days, namely on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Margaret the Virgin [July 19-21] and the 12 following days' (Cal. doc. Ire., 310). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 07 January 2019

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