Tulaigh Chatháin

Tullycahan (Tulaigh Chatháin) derives from the Irish 'tulach' meaning hillock, combined with the personal name Cathán, thus 'Cathan's hill—a naming pattern typical of Irish townland formation. The townland appears in official county records from 1777 onwards, with the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks of the 1830s–1840s documenting it under variant Irish spellings including 'tullach cathan' and ...