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Lucas/Lucas-Scudamore (Castleshane)
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In 1683, Charles II granted the manor of Castle Shane to Francis Lucas. His descendants served as Members of Parliaments and High Sheriffs of county Monaghan. Edward Lucas of Castle Shane was born in 1720 and had a family of seven sons and five daughters. In 1786, his successor Charles Lucas married Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Monaghan and they had an only child, the Right Hon Edward Lucas, Under Secretary of State for Ireland 1841-1846 and a member of the Privy Council. The Castle Shane estate was mainly in the parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, but also in the parishes of Aghnamullen, Monaghan, Tehallan, Tedavnet and Clones. The rental of over 1,000 acres of the Lucas estate held in fee-simple and just north of Lough Bawn was for sale in the Landed Estates Court in May 1861 and parts of it again in November of that year. By 1876, Edward Scudamore Lucas, a grandson of the Right Hon Edward Lucas, was proprietor of this estate of 9,955 acres. Other members of the Lucas family owned small amounts of land in 1876. On inheriting the Kentchurch, Herefordshire, estate in England from his mother’s family Edward Scudamore Lucas took the additional name of Scudamore in 1900. see https://www.castleshanehistory.ie/
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