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Petty-Fitzmaurice (Marquess of Lansdowne)
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This estate owes its origins to Sir William Petty, renowned cartographer, mathematician and scientist. He was granted extensive lands in south Kerry, formerly the property of the O'Sullivans, in the seventeenth century. He was also granted large tracts of land in counties Limerick, Cork, Kilkenny, King's County (county Offaly) and Westmeath. Petty's daughter Anne married Thomas Fitzmaurice of Lixnaw, first Earl of Kerry. Their grandson William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, was created Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784. In the 1870s, the Munster estate of the Marquess of Lansdowne amounted to over 94,000 acres in county Kerry with 1,526 acres in county Limerick. This included property in the parishes of Dromod, Killinane and Prior, barony of Iveragh, county Kerry and in the parishes of St Nicholas, St Munchins and Killeely, North Liberties of Limerick and in the city itself. The Irish estate amounted to over 121,000 acres including property in Dublin, King’s and Queen’s County and Limerick. In the nineteenth century they were mostly absentee landlords. In the 1830s, the Ordnance Survey Name Books record James Hickson, of Landsdowne Lodge, Kenmare, as acting as agent for the Marquess of Landsdowne. Later in the century that role was undertaken by William S. Trench.
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Marshall (County Kerry)
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John Marshall, son of Robert, assignee to Sir William Petty, was granted 58,701 acres in the barony of Iveragh, county Kerry in 1686. The Marshall family held lands in the parish of Currans, barony of Trughanacmy, until the 1840s. Richard John Marshall was the owner of over 5600 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. Bary states that the Callanafersy estate was inherited by Richard John Leeson, a descendent of the Leesons of Russborough, county Wicklow. He assumed the additonal name of Marshall from his uncle, who had been leasing these lands from the Godfreys to whom he was related.
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Leeson
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Robert Leeson was associated with properties in mid and south Kerry at the time of Griffith's Valuation and earlier. He was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Castlelisland and Kilcolman at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It would seem that the Leeson connection came through inter-marriage with descendents of the Markham and Marshall families. In 1795 the Honourable Robert Leeson, a younger son of the 1st Earl of Milltown, married Grace, daughter of Michael Head of county Tipperary. Their son, Robert Leeson, married a niece of John Markham Marshall and inherited lands in counties Kerry and Tipperary. Griffith's Valuation records the Honourable Robert Leeson holding land in the parish of Kilmore, barony of Upper Ormond and Robert Marshall Leeson holding land in the parishes of Finnoe and Knigh, barony of Lower Ormond. The estate of Robert Marshall Leeson in county Tipperary, amounting to about 900 acres was advertised for sale in April 1856. The Freeman's Journal reported that one lots was purchased in trust by Mr. Mills and the second by Mr. Ryan.
Robert Marshall Leeson held townlands in the parishes of Ballyloughloe and Tyfarnham, county Westmeath at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). His estate in county Westmeath, with those in counties Kilkenny, Meath, Wexford and King’s County (Offaly), amounted to over 7,000 acres were advertised for sale in May 1854. The county Westmeath lands contained about 867 acres. http://www.odonohoearchive.com/ballymacadam-castle-towards-a-history-of-a-geraldine-stronghold/
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