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Blacker
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The estate of St. John Blacker, of Ballylongford and Killylea, county Armagh, amounted to over 8000 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s as well as 200 acres in Armagh. He was a descendent of Samuel Blacker, of the Carrickblacker family. In 1880 he assumed the name Douglas under the terms of the will lof his uncle, Charles Douglas, of Grace Hall, county Armagh. His estate held townlands in the parishes of Aghavallen and Lisselton, barony of Iraghticonnor at the time of Griffith's Valuation.
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Blacker (Booterstown)
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The Blackers were settled at Carrick in county Armagh from the 16th century. In the 1850s the Reverend Beaver Blacker, rector of Booterstown, county Dublin, held the townland of Ballynamona, 341 acres in the parish of Moybulgue, county Cavan. He was a grandson of Beaver Blacker who died in 1808. In 1876, the Reverend Richard [Beaver H.] Blacker of Blackrock is recorded as the owner of 341 acres in county Cavan. In 1878, the Reverend Beaver Henry Blacker of Cheltenham and Lisnahanna, county Tyrone, was the owner of 1,291 acres in county Tyrone.
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