To the west of the village of Fews is the Black Mountain called the Mountain of Móin a' Mhullaigh, a name meaning Bog of the Summit. The people here say it is not part of the Comeragh Mountains, but there can be little doubt, however, that it was originally included in that range of mountains.Names derived from timber and shrubbery abound in this neighbourhood, indicating the former presence here of extensive forests. The region was probably portion of the Forest of Decies.The people of this parish were noted, a hundred years ago, for their pretensions, a trait which gave rise to the sarcastic allusion of a local poet "Uaisle bochta, daoine Paróiste na bhFiodh".Townlands1. Ashton - Baile na Fuinnseóige - Homestead of the Ash Tree
2. Céim - Leap. It is difficult to gather exact meaning of this word here.

He lived in Smith's House in Mobane, 1 1/2 miles distant. H was employed by the first John Johnson of the Fews to murder Catholics of the district according as he wished to get rid of them.
He was a Catholic in name and attended Mass in Mobane Church where he had a gallery with stone steps leading up to it from the outside. He let on to be very devout and carried a Rosary beads of fifteen decades.
Any person where Johnson believed to favour the cause of Séamus Rí and was taking an active part in promoting his cause was marked off by Johnson to be killed by Cormac.
He used to murder marked men with a mideóg which he carried in his belt snd which he always put under his pillows at night.
He is credited with having given Johnson 110 heads and was paid £5 per head. He owned 3 acres of bog and got large quantities of turf out and saved free. The neighbours were so much afraid of him that they did the work for im for nothing.
After Mass on Sunday he used to say to the people "Béidh Cormac Ó Cíonnáin ag tarraingt móna ambárach agus is leór sin."
He was married and had 12 daughters but no

The townland I live in is Rassan. There are thirty houses in it. It has a population of one hundred and twenty.There are twenty four farm houses in it. There are six ruined houses, three shops, two teachers residences and four labourer's cottages.There are over four hundred acres of land in Rassan. There is one farm with over two hundred acres of land. The land is boggy and swampy and it needs lime of ten. There are thirty acres of bog. The average amount of land owned by each farmer is six acres.The old name for Lower Rassan was Black Fethernagh. The rest of Fethernagh is in Co. Armagh. Fethernagh means the wild ford of the oak trees. Rassan means a shrubbery.Rassan, with the ten other townlands in the parish of Creggan Upper, was part of the Upper Fews of Co. Armagh.

Co. an Dúin (Iveagh)
McGennis Mac Aonghusa
McRory Mac Ruadhraí
De Courcy De Cúrsa
De Burga De Burca (Uladh)
Smyth Mac Gabhann
Fitzimmon Mac Siomín
Mandeville De Móinbhóil
De Lacy De Lóis
Copeland Coiplidhe
Staunton De Stonndún
La Peer La Párr
Co. Árd Mhacha (Fews)
O'Neill Ó Néill
O'Duvany Ó Dubhanaigh
O'Callan Ó Calláin
O'Garvey Ó Garbheith
O'Kieran Ó Ciaráin
O'Larkin Ó Lorcúin
O'Hanratty Ó hAnrachtaigh
O'Hanlon Ó hAnnlúain
O'Heir Ó hAichir
O'Marron Ó Mearáin
McCann Mac Anna (Clannbreasail)
McEvoy Mac-a-bhuidhe
O'Tierney Ó Tíghearna