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Townland of Sheskin in the Catholic parish of Killargue, civil parish of Killarga, Barony of Drumahaire, PLU of Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, Connaught, Ireland is located at N 54 14' 26.8", W 08 13' 46.5". Hugh McTernan VIII and his niece Maureen Bower. The roofless remains of the family castle on the 25 acres of land is a 2 room rock and mud house that measures 11 feet wide and 20 feet long. There is a wide harth at the east end of the house. Until the 1890s, it housed two adults and four young men in their twenties.
The townland of Sheskin is 94 acres. The McTernan family originally owned 72 acres. Alice McTernan, nee O'Connor sold 25 acres in the mid 1850s to a Patrick Feeney. Hugh McTernan V is listed as the occupier of 47 acres in the 1856 evaluation.
Hugh McTernan VIII was born there in 1916 and lived there until about 1947. Sheskin in Gaelic means marsh.
Another view of heskin
Michael McTiernan and Maureen Bower, nee Flynn
The gates of Sheskin 
N40 03' 09.4"
W75 24' 14.1"