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Mitchell (Castle Strange)
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Cornet Thomas Mitchell from Scotland settled at Castlestrange, county Roscommon in the mid 17th century. In 1828 Edward Mitchell of Castlestrange was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. Members of the Mitchell family were advertising the sale of leasehold property in the parish of Fuerty, barony of Athlone, in March 1854. The Freeman's Journal reported that they were purchased by Thomas Palmer for almost £3000. Edward Mitchell is recorded as owning four townlands in the parish of Fuerty, barony of Athlone and his brother, Colonel John Mitchell, held one townland in the mid 1850s. Mary Anne Blakeney married John Henry Mitchell of Coolmeen and had a son and a daughter who advertised the sale of the Blakeney lands of Lisnamult, parish of Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South and the lands of Ballyhubert, parish of Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon in January 1852. The Freeman's Journal reported that Lisnamult was purchased by B.W. Bagot while Ballyhubert was bought in trust for Patrick O'Connor. The representatives of John Mitchell also held a townland in the parish of Cloonfinlough, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s Major General John Wray Mitchell of Castlestrange owned 987 acres in county Roscommon. [A Joseph Mitchell of Dublin purchased over 3,300 acres in the barony of Ballintober, county Roscommon from the trustees for forfeited estates in 1703 but he does not appear to fit in with the Mitchell genealogy recorded by Burke (1886)].
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McLoughlin (Castlecoote)
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William McLoughlin held land in the parishes of Fuerty, barony of Athlone, Cloonygormican, barony of Ballymoe and Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, county Roscommon in the 1850s. The latter bought from the sale of the Jephson estate in 1851. By 1883 the land in the parish of Kilbride was in the possession of Bedelia and Joseph Henry O'Malley. His land in the parish of Fuerty was offered for sale by the Mitchells of Castlestrange in March 1854. He was also the occupier of the house and had extensive mills and other buildings in the townland of Castlecoote.
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Jephson (Carrick)
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Over 1,100 acres of the estate of Lorenzo Henry Jephson, Carrick on Suir, county Tipperary, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in November 1851. The sale rental shows Jephson owning over 1,500 acres in the barony of Glenquin, county Limerick with premises in Limerick city and also over 200 acres in the barony of Iffa and Offa East, county Tipperary including the house and demesne lands of Carrick on Suir. The estate included lands in the baronies of Castlereagh and Ballymoe, county Roscommon and 300 acres in the barony of Castlereagh were readvertised in July 1852. Jephson appears to have been murdered in 1866. see http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CoTipperary/2005-03/1109980321
Roger Sawyer gives some details about the Jephson family of Carrick in relation to the mother of Roger Casement, whose name was Anne Jephson. The Jephsons of Carrick appear to be a junior branch of the Jephsons of Mallow Castle. John Jephson married Frances Osborne and had a daughter Anne Salisbury who married James Hickie. Hickie took the additional name of Jephson and had a son Lorenzo Hickie Jephson (1773-1820) of Wilmar, county Tipperary, who married Martha Prittie, daughter of Lord Dunalley. Lorenzo Henry Jephson was their son. He held land in the parish of Carrick, barony of Iffa and Offa East, county Tipperary at the time of Griffith's Valuation.
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Croghan (Kilbride)
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In 1749 Charles Croghan and Luke Croghan were both resident in the parish of Kilbride and Owen Croghan in the parish of Boyle. In 1778 a Croghan residence is marked on the Taylor and Skinner map at Ardmore, parish of Dunamon, barony of Ballymoe, county Roscommon. In the mid 19th century the Croghans held land from the Earl of Essex in the parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, county Roscommon. The rental of the lands of Tonlegee, Rathconor and Smaghraan, held under a fee farm grant dated 26 June 1851 from the Earl to Elizabeth Croghan, was advertised for sale by James Croghan a minor and heir of Edward Croghan and Christopher Hume Lawder assignee of Charles Croghan, deceased. These lands amounting to 1,958 acres were in the possession of Patrick and Charles O'Conor and William McLoughlin at the time of Griffith's Valuation.
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Coote
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The Coote family settled in Queen's county (county Laois) in the early 17th century and the head of the family was granted the title Earl of Mountrath in 1661. The title expired in 1827 but the baronetcy, created in 1621, continued with Sir Charles Henry Coote (1794-1864) who became Ireland's Premier Baronet in 1827. By patent dated 1666 Lord Mountrath was granted over 4,200 acres in the Connacht counties of Roscommonn and Galway and over 15,000 acres in Leinster. His brother, Chidley Coote, was granted over 3,800 acres in county Roscommon in 1674. In 1709 Chidley Coote, then of Jamestown, served as High Sheriff of Leitrim but this branch of the family were mainly resident in county Limerick. In the mid 19th century the county Roscommon estate of Sir Charles Henry Coote, 9th baronet, was in the parishes of Fuerty, Rahara, Killinvoy, Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, Oran, barony of Ballymoe, Kilmacumsy, barony of Frenchpark, Kilglass, barony of Ballintober North, Kilbride and Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South and Clooncraff, Elphin, Kiltrustan, Shankill, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s Sir Charles Henry Coote, 10th baronet, owned over 1,000 acres in county Roscommon but his main estate of 47,451 acres was in Queen's county (county Laois), where he resided at Ballyfin House, Mountrath. He also owned land in the parishes of Athneasy and Knockainy, barony of Smallcounty, county Limerick at the time of Griffith's Valuation and in the 1870s his county Limerick estate amounted to 340 acres and he owned 878 acres in county Kildare. His brother, John Chidley Coote of Farmleigh, Castleknock, county Dublin, owned 10,318 acres in county Roscommon.
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