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Magan
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The Magans were settled in counties Westmeath and Offaly in the 18th century. Benny Lane writes that the first Magan to come to Tisrara parish was George Percy Magan who married Eleanor O'Connor-Henchey in 1824. In the mid 19th century their son, Percy Tilson Magan, owned an estate in the parishes of Athleague, Taghboy and Tisrara, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. His main residence was at Kilcleagh Park, Moate, county Westmeath. By the end of the 19th century he was living in the house he built at Correal. In the 1870s he owned 2,989 acres in county Roscommon. Percy Magan and his wife are both buried in Mount Talbot cemetery. His son was involved in the developement of the co operative movement in the locality. The estate was vested in the Irish Land Commissions in 1905.
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Magan (Umma)
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The family descend from Humphrey Magan of Emoe or Umma-More, Ballymoe, County Westmeath in the late seventeenth century. In 1703, Thomas Magan of Togherstown Gent. bought about 1,440 acres in the barony of Rathconrath from the Trustees of forfeited estates including 234 acres of Togherstown. William Henry Magan (1819-1860) of Clonearl, King’s County (Co Offaly) was a first cousin of George Magan of Kilcleagh, county Westmeath, born 1828. He was the lessor of lands in many County Westmeath parishes in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly in Conry, Killare, Lynn and Noughaval, He also held land in counties Dublin and Kildare. Various sale rentals record the extent of his estates as they were sold in the Encumbered Estates Court 1853-1854. He married Lady Georgina C Keppel (died 1854), daughter of the 4th Earl of Albemarle but they had no children. He was an MP for county Westmeath. He died in 1860 and appears to have been succeeded by his mother as in the 1870s Mrs Georgina Magan of Killyon, County Meath, owned 5,604 acres in County Westmeath and other estates in counties Kildare, King’s County [Offaly], Meath and Dublin, which eventually passed to William’s sister Augusta Elizabeth Magan, who died in 1905. She was succeeded by her cousin Mrs Georgina Bartlett of Clonearl who died in 1910. The remaining County Westmeath lands were sold in the ensuing years.
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