Leslie (Cootehill)

William Leslie was the manager of the Provincial Bank, Cootehill, county Cavan, in the second half of the 19th century. He is not recorded as a lessor in the county at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. He had an only son William Moutray Leslie who was appointed a barrister in 1868. In 1876, William Leslie of Cootehill owned 2,354 acres in the county and was its High Sheriff.

Associated Families

Leslie (Cootehill)

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

Thomas Cunningham Belfast 1st pt. William Leslie, Cootehill, Co. Cavan 2nd pt. Araminta Erskine Leslie 3rd pt. Benjamin Henry Spedding, Belfast and Robert Agnew, Prov. Bk., Cootehill 4th pt. Marriage Settlement of 1st & 3rd parties. Corrancary, Drumbinis, Rooskey, Pottle, Killycloghan, Latsey Upper, Glassdrumman, Knocknalosset, Co. Cavan. 26 August 1879. T662/564; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

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] : 269