Hevey's Charity, Trustees of

James Hevey, a brewer and landowner of Mullingar, county Westmeath, by his will dated 1837 left the 612 acre townland of Bryanstown, parish of Dysart, which he held in fee simple, to five trustees to support the education of poor children of the locality. The annual rent amounted to about £600. The trustees in the 19th century were the Bishops of Meath and Clogher, the parish priest and two laymen and a number of schools were founded with the support of this charity. In the mid-1870s the acreage was recorded as 609 acres. A report of the endowment can be accessed at https://www.google.ie/books/edition/Report_of_the_Commissioners_Appointed_by/5ywxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22hevey+charity%22+mullingar&pg=PA202&printsec=frontcover