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Porter
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John Porter was granted 971 acres in the barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo, by patent dated 17 Nov 1677. Henry Edward Porter, High Sheriff for county Monaghan in 1849, was a younger son of the Porter family of Belle Isle, county Fermanagh. He owned 5,938 acres in county Mayo in the 1870s valued at £109. His brother married a Lindsey of Hollymount House. Mrs Grey Porter was instrumental in the development of Carrickmacross lace after honeymooning on the Continent in 1816. The Porter estate in county Monaghan was in the parishes of Magheross and Magheracloone, barony of Farney and was held by Henry Edward Porter in the mid-19th century. Henry Edward Porter held a house in fee, valued at £14 in Magheross, circa 1860. In 1876, his brothers the Reverend Charles Porter and William Porter, both resident in England, owned 510 and 569 acres respectively in the county. The brothers were all sons of John Porter, Bishop of Clogher, who died in 1819. Their nephew, John Grey Vesey Porter, lived at Belle Isle, county Fermanagh. https://www.carrickmacrossworkhouse.com/index.php/historic-maps
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Lindsey (Hollymount)
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This branch of the Lindsey family were descended from a younger son of the first Lindsey of Turin, parish of Kilmainemore, county Mayo. It was through his marriage in 1757 with Frances Vesey, granddaughter of Archbishop John Vesey of Tuam, that Thomas Lindsey came to own the Vesey's Hollymount estate, parish of Kilcommon, barony of Kilmaine. Charles Cromie was agent to the Lindseys in the 1830s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Lindsey estate was comprised of eleven townlands in the parish of Kilcommon and five townlands in the parish of Kilmainemore. In 1876 Miss Mary Lindsey owned 5194 acres in county Mayo. She married Heremon FitzPatrick, grandson of the 2nd Marquess of Headford and he assumed the additional surname of Lindsey. They had no children. The estate was sold to the Congested Districts' Board on 31 Mar 1915.
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