Bredin
Christopher Bredin of Rice Hill, county Cavan, was appointed High Sheriff in 1797. Edgar Robert Bredin also lived at Rice Hill. Coolnagor or Ricehill was a townland that bordered Kilmore Upper where the palace of the Bishop of Kilmore was situated. Ricehill was held by the Bredins from the Bishop. There is no mention of the Bredins at Ricehill at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and £3.10s was the highest valuation on any building in the townland. In 1851, Edgar Robert Bredin married Caroline Martha daughter of Charles James Adams of Shinan House, county Cavan and they had five sons and four daughters. The Bredins were living at Retreat when their first son John William was born in 1852. They bought some of the Moore Boyle estate in the parish of Drung which was advertised for sale in 1850. Griffith’s Valuation records the Bredin estate in the parishes of Drumlane and Drung. At the same time Edgar Robert Bredin, [of Retreat, near Cootehill, county Cavan], held the townland of Lisheennaheltia, parish of Boyounagh, barony of Ballymoe, county Galway. This townland of over a thousand acres, held in fee simple, was advertised for sale in 1856. By the mid-1850s the family appear to be resident at Ontario Lodge, Oakville, Canada. In 1876, Edgar R. Bredin of Hamilton, Ontario owned 1,629 acres in county Cavan.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Retreat/Faybrook | Drumnagran | Kildrumsherdan | Cootehill | Tullyvin West | Tullygarvey | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H550121
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 28 |
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| Ricehill House | Coolnagor or Ricehill | Kilmore | Cavan | Killykeen | Upper Loughtee | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H380033
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 34 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Bredin, 6 Nov 1856, Vol 42, MRGS 39/020, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 334 (Ricehill)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cavan Union, 279 (Ricehill)
Modern printed sources
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': The name of O'Braden, Bredin or Bredon. Vol. I, No. 7, April, 1940
- MULLIGAN, Kevin V. ''The Buildings of Ireland South Ulster, Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan'', (New Haven and London, 2013): 397