McLenahan

The Anglo Celt of 30 March 1849 records James M’Lenahan, Lisagoan, county Cavan, as a Poor Law Guardian for Ballyhaise. James M’Lenahan was agent to the Humphrys’ Ballyhaise estate and was referred to as Mr Humphry’s ‘popular and indulgent agent’ at the Ballyhaise Estates Farming Society dinner as reported in the Anglo Celt of 3 December 1857. He sat on the Grand Jury for the Cavan Spring Assizes in 1859. In the mid-1850s James McLenahan held the townland of Drumhurt (251 acres) in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, county Cavan. In 1876, James M’Lenehan of Esk-bank, Dalkeith, Scotland, owned 893 acres in county Cavan, 29 acres in county Down and 144 acres in county Monaghan.