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Tenison (Lough Bawn)
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The Tenisons of Lough Bawn, county Monaghan, descend from Norbury Tenison, fourth son of the most Reverend Richard Tenison, Bishop of Meath in the 1690s. The Bishop’s eldest son, Henry Tenison of Dillonstown, county Louth, acquired the Lough Bawn estate circa 1695 and leased it in 1709 to William Barton of Thomastown, Co Louth and of Carrickmacross Castle, Co Monaghan. Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Barton, married Henry’s younger brother Richard Tension. When Richard’s daughter Margaret died unmarried in 1742 Lough Bawn passed to Richard’s nephew, William Tenison of Priorlands, county Louth. Shirley writes that William Tenison’s wife’s family, the Woods of Lisanisk, Carrickmacross, were given a lease of Lough Bawn in 1724. In 1876, the estate extended to 2,697 acres and was all located in the parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne. Lough Bawn has remained in the possession of the Tenison family until the present day although reduced in size to about 250 acres.
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