Jones (Nahillah)
According to a Chancery Report of 1864 John Jones was granted a lease of about 40 ‘polls’ [approximately 2,000 acres] by the Bishop of Kilmore in the Drumlane and Kildallan locality. The Jones interest became vested in John Copeland Jones (died 1854, aged 74) and then in his son David Fielding Jones. In his Statistical Survey of County Cavan (1802), Sir Charles Coote refers to “John Jones Copeland” as a principal landed proprietor. John Copeland Jones was the son of David Jones, High Sheriff in 1763, and grandson of John Jones Junior of Belturbet and Elizabeth Copeland, daughter of William Copeland who died in 1734. In the mid-19th century the representatives of John Copeland Jones held an estate mainly in the parish of Drumlane but also in the parishes of Tomregan and Annagh. David Fielding Jones of Nahillah died in 1868 and his will was proved by John Copeland Jones of Nahillah and another. In 1876 John Copeland Jones of Nahillah owned 2,235 acres in county Cavan.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nahillah House | Drumcrow | Annagh | Cavan | Castlesaunderson | Lower Loughtee | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H410134
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 27A |
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| Ture Lodge | Ture | Drumlane | Cavan | Ardue | Lower Loughtee | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H305164
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 27 |
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| Berrymount | Berrymount | Tomregan | Bawnboy | Carn | Lower Loughtee | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H282141
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 27A |
Archival sources
- Detailed abstracts of wills of Jones of Cos Clare, Carlow, Dublin, Kildare and of Belturbet, Co Cavan, 1635-1798. GO MS 141: 170 and 259-285.; National Library of Ireland
- Graves Collection, 24 O 39/JOD/ 160; Royal Irish Academy Library
- Wills and Administrations, 1868, 249; National Archives of Ireland
- Map of creamery plot at Nahillah on the Belturbet to Nahillah road, county Cavan. 'Mrs Jones' is named as an adjacent land occupier. Shows outline of building to be built on the plot. Drawn by George Frazer. 2 January 1901. 017/0157 ; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- Land Judges Court Rentals (O'Brien), Jones, 14 June 1881, Vol 142 (3), MRGS 39/063, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''Irish Chancery Reports'': 1864, 184
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 239
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cavan Union, 153; Bawnboy Union, 3
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 381 (Ture); 68 (Berrymount)
Modern printed sources
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': Abstracts of Irish diocesan wills include W. Copeland of Monaghan, Co Cavan, 1714. I, No 6, Oct 1939.
- CLARK, M.H. The Jones Family in Ireland, (1886): All