Bredin
Description
A family from county Cavan.
Estate(s)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Bredin | Christopher Bredin of Rice Hill, county Cavan, was appointed High Sheriff in 1797. Edgar Robert Bredin also lived at Rice Hill. Coolnagor or Ricehill was a townland that bordered Kilmore Upper where the palace of the Bishop of Kilmore was situated. Ricehill was held by the Bredins from the Bishop. There is no mention of the Bredins at Ricehill at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and £3.10s was the highest valuation on any building in the townland. In 1851, Edgar Robert Bredin married Caroline Martha daughter of Charles James Adams of Shinan House, county Cavan and they had five sons and four daughters. The Bredins were living at Retreat when their first son John William was born in 1852. They bought some of the Moore Boyle estate in the parish of Drung which was advertised for sale in 1850. Griffith’s Valuation records the Bredin estate in the parishes of Drumlane and Drung. At the same time Edgar Robert Bredin, [of Retreat, near Cootehill, county Cavan], held the townland of Lisheennaheltia, parish of Boyounagh, barony of Ballymoe, county Galway. This townland of over a thousand acres, held in fee simple, was advertised for sale in 1856. By the mid-1850s the family appear to be resident at Ontario Lodge, Oakville, Canada. In 1876, Edgar R. Bredin of Hamilton, Ontario owned 1,629 acres in county Cavan. |
| Reilly (Glennamaddy) | Patrick Reilly held 3 townlands in the parish of Boyounagh, barony of Ballymoe, county Galway, in the mid 1850s and Patrick and Michael Reilly both had houses in the town of Glennamaddy. Michael Reilly of Glennamaddy owned 3,631 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. His estate amounting to 3,726 acres was offered for sale in December 1880 by the trustees of his will. The estate was dispersed throughout the parishes of Boyounagh, barony of Ballymoe and Kilkerrin, barony of Tiaquin. Pádraig Lane writes that Michael Reilly of Glan bought some of the property of Bartholomew Kelly in 1856. It is also evident that he bought land formerly in the possession of William Ball, Sir St George Gore and Robert E. Bredin. |
| Boyle (Tullyvin) | [This estate previously belonged to the Moore family]. On 21 November 1788, James Moore Boyle of Tullyvin, county Cavan, married Lydia daughter of Richard Moore of Rathdouney, county Laois [marriage register for the Parish of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland, 1720-1846]. Their son Maxwell James Boyle married Lydia Anne Townley at Portpatrick, on 2 September 1816. By 1850, M.J. Boyle had got into financial difficulty and part of the Tullyvin estate, amounting to 2,397 acres, was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. Parts were sold to James and Thomas Fay and to Edgar R. Bredin. A further 500 acres were advertised for sale in 1858. Maxwell James Boyle of Tullyvin died in November 1854 as recorded by the Anglo Celt of 9 November. His son Maxwell W. Boyle married Honoria T., daughter of William Henry Richardson of Prospect, county Louth and they had a son Maxwell James Boyle born in 1845. In the mid-1850s, Maxwell William Boyle was the proprietor of the Tullyvin estate, county Cavan, when 12 townlands, over 2,000 acres in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, were recorded in his possession. At the time of the 1901 census Maxwell James Boyle was living at Tullyvin and in 1911 his residence was Clongee, county Mayo. Mrs Charlotte Townley of Tullyvin, owned 2,180 acres in 1876. |