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Brady (Clonervy)
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In the 1770s, Patrick Brady held an estate at Clonervy in the parish of Castleterra, barony of Upper Loughtee, county Cavan. He was married to Bridget, who is mentioned in his will dated 1 January 1774 (see An Act for the relief of Patrick Richard Blackwood Brady and Richard Blackwood in respect of certain lands and premises in county Cavan, 13 August 1834) and his lands were listed in the act as follows - 'the Lands of Clonervy, Corocane, Poles otherwise Lasacake, Pottle, Corgreagh, Lismullig, Lisbodu with the Mill thereon, Corcoragh, Drumskelt, Shrahoran otherwise Shraboy, Corrinshegagh, and the Rocks, as also the Two Poles of Latt, all situate in the County of Cavan ; and also reciting that he was seised and possessed of the Lands of Shantamon, Shankills with the Mill thereon, and Henis, for the Term of Three Lives stated to be then in being ; and also reciting that he was possessed for a term of years with a clause for renewal of toties quoties, of Upper and Lower Corfahone, all likewise therein stated to be situate in the county of Cavan'. The families of his three daughters inherited his estates, they were the Richardsons of Drum, county Tyrone, the Blackwoods of Clonervy, county Cavan and the Geales of Mount Geale, county Kilkenny.
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Richardson/Richardson-Brady
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William Richardson of Drum, county Tyrone married Isabella Brady, co-heiress to the Clonervy estate, near Cavan. Their son, Major William Stewart Richardson of Oaklands, succeeded his father in 1823, and assumed the additional name of Brady on succeeding to his mother's third of the Clonervy estate in 1841. His daughter and sole heiress married in 1866 Viscount Stuart, later 5th Earl Castle Stewart, of Stewart Hall, Stewartstown, county Tyrone. Lord and Lady Castle Stewart had two daughters, but no son. One of their daughters Lady Muriel succeeded to the Richardson Brady estate. Lady Muriel married Archibald Maxwell Close of Drumbanagher, Co. Armagh, in 1891. Earl Annesley bought some of this estate.
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Stuart (Castlereagh)
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In 1876, the Viscountess Stuart is recorded as the owner of 2,260 acres in county Cavan while in 1878 Hussey de Burgh records the Earl of Castlestewart as the owner of 2,260 acres in county Cavan and 32,615 acres in county Tyrone. Henry James Richardson Stuart, 5th Earl, succeeded his father in 1874 and married in 1866 Augusta Le Vicomte Massy-Richardson, only child and heir of Major Richardson-Brady of Oaklands, county Tyrone. The county Cavan estate appears to have come into the possession of the Earl through his wife. Her father William Stewart Richardson-Brady held a townland in the county Cavan parish of Kilmore in the 1850s.
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Smith (Drumheel)
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In the mid-19th century the county Cavan estate of William Smith, agent to the Richardson Brady estate, was in the parishes of Crosserlough, Drung and Kilmore. Margaret Smith also held two townlands in the parish of Crosserlough. In 1876 William Smith’s representatives with an address at Drumheel, Bellananagh, owned 2,431 acres in the county, while Margaret Smith of Belfast owned 516 acres. The estate of George Stewart Smith was in the process of being sold to the tenants in 1905, see http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1906/nov/29/george-stewart-smith-estate-cavan
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