Altateskin
townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland
Altateskin (from Irish Alt an tSeiscinn, meaning 'The Glen of the Marsh') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Corlough and barony of Tullyhaw. The local pronunciation is Awelta a chaskin.
Geography
Altateskin is bounded on the west by Altcrock, Bellavally Upper, Derrynananta Lower and Altnadarragh townlands and on the east by Altachullion Upper, Tullyloughfin and Owencam townlands. Its chief geographical features are the Owensallagh river (A source of the River Blackwater, County Cavan), Mullaghroe mountain, waterfalls, swallow holes, gravel pits, a sulphur spa well, and springs. Altateskin is traversed by minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 533 statute acres,.
History
In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay soils. It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land.
The earliest reference to the townland is on a map dated 1813 where it is called Altaghteskin and Altaghteskan with the owner being John Ennery esquire.
“Altateskin” enters the record as townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Altateskin, townland and civil can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48816398. Authority coordinates are 54.152, -7.801. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1610 and 1813.
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This entry incorporates text from “Altateskin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.