Mahon/Pakenham-Mahon

In February 1666 Captain Nicholas Mahon was granted over 2,700 acres in the barony of Roscommon and in July 1678 he was granted over 3,000 acres in the baronies of Roscommon and Ballintober county Roscommon. The latter became the Manor of Ballynamully or Strokestown, 500 acres to be held as demesne. Thomas Mahon represented the borough of Roscommon 1739-1763 and the county from 1763-1782. His son and heir, Maurice Mahon, was created Baron Hartland of Strokestown in July 1800. The Honourable S. Mahon was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon in 1828. The Ordnance Survey Name Books record Thomas Conry as agent to Lord Hartland. The title died out with the death in 1845 of Maurice, 3rd Baron Hartland. He was succeeded by his cousin, Major Denis Mahon, who was murdered in 1847. Grace Catherine Mahon, the heiress, married Henry Sandford Pakenham, eldest son of the Honourable and Reverend Henry Pakenham and they took the additional name of Mahon. Their only son Henry had one child, a daughter Olive. The estate of the Rev Henry Pakenham, Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, was partly in the parish of Killare, county Westmeath. In the mid-1870s Henry Pakenham of Strokestown, county Roscommon owned 632 acres in county Westmeath. In the 1850s Henry Sandford Pakenham-Mahon held land in the county Roscommon parishes of Dysart, barony of Athlone, Kilglass and Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, Kilbride, Kilgefin, barony of Ballintober South, Cloonfinlough, Bumlin, Aughrim, Elphin, Kilbride, Kiltrustan, Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s the Pakenham Mahon estate amounted to almost 27,000 acres in county Roscommon. Over 8,600 acres of the Mahon estate was vested in the Congested Districts' Board in March 1911 and July 1912. The Strokestown House archive is now located at the OPW-NUI Maynooth Archive and Research Centre at Castletown, county Kildare.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Castlenode House	Castlenode	Bumlin	Strokestown	Strokestown 111	Roscommon	Roscommon	OSI Ref: M945 789 OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 40
Strokestown House	Cloonradoon	Bumlin	Strokestown	Strokestown 111	Roscommon	Roscommon	OSI Ref: M936 807 OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 33
Newtown Glebe	Newtown	Bumlin	Strokestown	Strokestown 111	Roscommon	Roscommon	OSI Ref: M937796 OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 40
Lisroyne Lodge	Lisroyne	Bumlin	Strokestown	Strokestown 111	Roscommon	Roscommon	OSI Ref: M924 808 OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 33

Archival sources

Leases by R. French to N. Mahon of lands in Aghaclogher, barony and county of Roscommon, 3 Mar 1731/2. D 15,442; National Library of Ireland
Mahon Papers, over 1,300 deeds re estates of Mahon, Sandford & Pakenham Mahon families, 1654-1894. D 11,725-13,047; National Library of Ireland
Rent ledger with name index, 1795-1804. MS 2597; National Library of Ireland
Rent ledgers of Baron Hartland, 1803-1818, 1824-1836. MSS 5501-5503; National Library of Ireland
Cash book of the Pakenham-Mahon family of Co Roscommon, 1833-1856. MS 5594; National Library of Ireland
Mahon Papers, rentals & accounts, c 1800-1850. MSS 9470-9474, 9478, 9486 & 9490; National Library of Ireland
Correspondence re family & estate affairs, 1720-1858. MSS 10,081-10,110; National Library of Ireland
Mahon Papers, rentals & other documents, 18th & 19th centuries. MSS 10,122-10,154 ; National Library of Ireland
Miscellaneous accounts, late 18th-19th centuries. MSS 15,372 & 15,410-15,411; National Library of Ireland
101 manuscript maps of estate of Pakenham Mahon in Co Roscommon, 1734-1895. 16.M.14-16; National Library of Ireland
Detailed abstract of will of Nicholas Mahon of Ballinealy, Co Roscommon, 1677. GO MS 139:150; National Library of Ireland
Pedigree of Mahon of Ballinealy, Strokestown & Cavetown, Barons Hartland, c 1650-c1830. GO MS 180: 247a-277; National Library of Ireland
Copy of grant of arms to Henry Sandford Pakenham and his issue by Mary Mahon on his assuming name & arms of Pakenham Mahon, in compliance with the desire of Denis Mahon, 15 Apr 1847. GO MS 107: 362-363; National Library of Ireland
Memorandum on the management of the Strokestown estate by John Ross Mahon in his first year as agent for the late Major Mahon, 8 Nov 1847. Microfilm copy P.928; National Library of Ireland
Local History Files - Hales Pakenham Mahon, Strokestown Hartland & Mahon; Roscommon County Library
Mahon/Pakenham Mahon Papers, Acc No 4538; National Library of Ireland
Strokestown photos & cuttings & a sale catalogue 1987. 002/094 & RP.D.9.10; Irish Architectural Archive
Martin, King, French & Ingram, solicitors, Limavady. Will of Thomas Conroy of Strokestown, Co Roscommon, 1840. D/1550/162/C/5; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
List of freeholders in the Strokestown area, registered for Lord Hartland by James & Denis Sweeney, 1815. MS 18,765; National Library of Ireland
Accounts & rentals covering townlands in the civil parishes of Ardcarn, Killukin & Killumod, 1842-1846, 1850-1855, 1861-1871. MSS 4001-4022; National Library of Ireland
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