Blackwood Brady
Mary Brady, one of the co-heiresses of the Clonervy estate, county Cavan, married the Reverend Townley Blackwood and they had a son, Patrick Richard Blackwood Brady. In 1801, Patrick married Catherine Madden. In the mid-19th century the Blackwood Bradys were involved in a number of court cases involving their estates, as reported in The Irish Jurist and Reports of cases argued in the High Court of Chancery. The Blackwood Bradys succeeded to Clonervy and the estate of Richard B. Blackwood, comprised of 2,071 acres situated in the baronies of Upper Loughtee and Tullygarvey, was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court on 15 May 1855 by his assignee Caroline Percival. Griffith’s Valuation records James O’Reilly and Joseph Lynch holding some of these lands while Clonervy was in the possession of the Earl Annesley.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonervy | Clonervy | Castleterra | Cavan | Clonervy | Upper Loughtee | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H470067
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 27 |
Archival sources
- T[ownley] Blackwood, Clonervy, [Co. Cavan], to Barry, Dublin, promising to support the sitting members for Cavan. 15 June 1818. T3422/A/2/7 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Private Act (Printed), 4 & 5 William IV, c. 36, An Act for the Relief of Patrick Richard Blackwood Brady and Richard Blackwood Esquires, in respect of certain Lands and Premises, their Estates, situate in the County of Cavan in Ireland, 1834. HL/PO/PB/1/1834/4& 5W4n213; Parliamentary Archives
- Marriage and family settlements, including a postnuptial settlement on Catherine Blackwood Brady, née Madden, the wife of Patrick Richard Blackwood Brady of Clonervy, Co. Cavan, 1804. [Nine items]. 1795-1811. D3465/C/9; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Letters to William Stewart Richardson Brady from William Smith of Drumkeel, agent for his Co. Cavan estate, about estate and financial business, the sale of the Blackwood/Brady estate of Clonervy in 1855 and Richardson Brady's failure to buy part of it, the purchase of additional land for Richardson Brady in 1856, Co. Cavan elections and politics, etc. 1851-1861. D2002/C/48; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Percival & Blackwood, 15 May 1855, Vol 34 (62), MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland