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Macnemara/McNamara (Cong)
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From 1722, George Macnemara held the Abbey lands in the parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo and associated land from the Tasburgh family. George Macnemara was involved in litigation over the ownership of the Abbey lands in the 1730s. By the 1770s at least 500 acres, including the Abbey and the lands of Cornamona and Clogher, county Galway, formerly held by George Macnemara (died 1760), were being leased by his brother-in-law, Stephen Creagh Butler, to his son, Bartholomew Macnemara. The Irish Tourist Association file records that Bishop Pococke described the Abbey House in 1770 as the most delightfully situated residence he had seen in the course of his travels. In 1786, Wilson refers to "the beautiful seat" of George McNamara. The Abbey lands were acquired by Sir Richard O'Donel of Newport in the 1780s and sold to Joseph Lambert of Brookhill, parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, in 1852.
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Maguire
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Edward Maguire was the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, county Leitrim, in 1856. The Maguire family, who were Catholic, owned an estate of over 4,000 acres at Gortoral near Swanlinbar. Edward Maguire was a JP for Fermanagh until his death in the 1870s. Nathaniel Maguire J.P. of Bonebrook, Drumlayan, parish of Templeport, county Cavan, held over 1,000 acres in the parish in the mi-19th century. He was related to the Maguire family of Gortoral, Swanlibar, county Fermanagh, and of county Leitrim. In 1876 Nathaniel Maguire of Aghacashel, Ballinamore, county Leitrim, owned 970 acres in county Cavan. On the first edition Ordnance Survey map Bonebrook is marked and named. It was valued at £4.10 shillings in Griffith’s Valuation when occupied by Nathaniel Maguire who held it from Eleanor O’Brien.
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