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Palliser
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A family originally from Yorkshire, Reverend William Palliser became Archbishop of Cashel in 1694. His daughter Jane married John Bury of Shannon Grove, county Limerick. Their two eldest sons were William, from whom descend the Earls of Charleville, and John, who succeeded his uncle, William Palliser, and assumed that name. He was the ancestor of the Pallisers of Comeragh, county Waterford and Derryluskan, county Tipperary. In 1784, his grandson, John Palliser, married Grace Barton of Grove and their son, Lieutenant Colonel Wray Palliser, held land mainly in the parish of Crohane, barony of Slievardagh but also in the parishes of Graystown, barony of Slievardagh and Barrettsgrange, Drangan, Knockgraffon, Outeragh and Rathcool, barony of Middlethird, County Tipperary.
In 1814, Colonel Wray Palliser married Anne, daughter and heir of John Gledstanes of Annesgift, county Tipperary. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, his brother, Rev. John B. Palliser, Rector of Clonmel, was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Dunhill and Islandikane, barony of Middlethird, county Waterford while Colonel Palliser held townlands in the parishes of Fews and Kilrossanty, barony of Decies-without-Drum, in the same county. In the 1870s John Palliser (an explorer of Western Canada) of Comeragh House owned 3,561 acres in county Tipperary, 9,825 acres in county Waterford and 467 acres in county Kildare (Castlewarden) while Captain William Palliser of Derryluskan, owned 1,026 acres in county Tipperary and 460 acres in county Kilkenny and Wray Bury Palliser of Annestown owned 2,024 acres in county Waterford .
The Comeragh and Kilmacthomas properties were later inherited by Caroline Grace Fairholme, niece of Wray Palliser. The ITA survey noted in 1942 that the estate amounted to over 2000 acres at that time, mostly mountain. The Fairholme family employed Charles Langlet of Kilmathomas as their agent.
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Millett
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In the mid 19th century Matthew R. Millett held an estate in the parish of Drangan, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary, from Colonel Palliser. The estate (1,476 acres) of John Millett, assignee of Thomas Prince Lloyd in the baronies of Ikerrin and Middlethird was advertised for sale in January 1853. Millett family had associations with Kyle and St Johnstown.
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Gahan
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In 1666 Daniel Gahan and his wife Susanna, widow of Thomas Ashe, were granted of about 1,000 Irish acres in the barony of Slievardagh, county Tipperary, including Coolequill. O'Hart records three sons of this marriage, Sir Daniel, George and John. Sir Daniel had no children and was succeeded by George. George's grandson, Daniel of Coolquill Castle, parish of Crohane, barony of Slievardagh, married Hannah Bunbury of Kilfeakle, co heiress of her uncle, Matthew Bunbury. In 1793 their daughter Marianne married William Tighe of Woodstock, county Kilkenny. Daniel Gahan was a Member of the Irish House of Commons in 1797. He had no sons and O'Hart writes that his property was inherited by his daughters Marianne Tighe and Penelope Gledstones [Gledstanes].
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Gledstanes
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George Gledstanes, originally from county Tyrone, married Jane Cullen of Skreeney. They resided at Fortland Cottage in the parish of Clooneclare, county Leitrim. Another branch of this family lived in county Tipperary. In the mid 18th century Anne eldest daughter of James Glenstanes of Fardross, county Tyrone, married Matthew Jacob of St Johnstown and Morbarnane, county Tipperary. Their son John Jacob Glenstanes married Penelope Gahan of Coolquill Castle, county Tipperary, one of the co heiresses of Daniel Gahan. John and Penelope Glenstanes' daughter Anne married Wray Palliser and it was through this marriage that Coolquill Castle and Annesgift came into the possession of the Palliser family.
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Palliser (Longford)
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Colonel Wray Palliser was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Taghsheenod, barony of Moydow, Clonbroney, barony of Granard and Moydow, barony of Moydow, County Longford, at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s. Colonel Palliser offered his Longford estate for sale in the Landed Estates Court in 1862. Burke asserts that the Palliser family derives from that of Bury, Earls of Charleville, as John Bury, of Shannon Grove, County Limerick married Jane, daughter of William Palliser, Archbishop of Cashel, in 1722. Their descendent, Charles William Bury, was created Earl of Charleville, Tullamore in 1806.
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