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McCausland (Limavady)
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The McCausland family of Drenagh or Fruit Hill, Limavady, county Derry, held almost 5000 acres in county Roscommon in the nineteenth century including property in the parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh, Cloontuskert, Kilgefin, Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South and Cloonfinlough, Cloncraff, Kilglass, Shankill, barony of Roscommon. This may have been due to a marriage between Connolly McCausland of Fruit Hill and Theodosia Mahon, of Strokestown, county Roscommon, in 1778. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey the agent for the estate was Conry of Strokestown. In February 1859 the McCausland estate in county Roscommon amounting to 3,198 acres in six baronies was advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. The Freeman's Journal provides a detailed list of those who purchased lots at this sale. In the 1870s the McCauslands are recorded as owning 4,799 acres in county Roscommon and 12,886 acres in county Londonderry. Bartlett states that the latter estate had been gifted to Robert McCausland by William Connolly. The Congested Districts' Board was negotiating with Maurice M. McCausland for the purchase of parts of his county Roscommon estate in 1916.
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