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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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Blackwood Brady
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Mary Brady, one of the co-heiresses of the Clonervy estate, county Cavan, married the Reverend Townley Blackwood and they had a son, Patrick Richard Blackwood Brady. In 1801, Patrick married Catherine Madden. In the mid-19th century the Blackwood Bradys were involved in a number of court cases involving their estates, as reported in The Irish Jurist and Reports of cases argued in the High Court of Chancery. The Blackwood Bradys succeeded to Clonervy and the estate of Richard B. Blackwood, comprised of 2,071 acres situated in the baronies of Upper Loughtee and Tullygarvey, was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court on 15 May 1855 by his assignee Caroline Percival. Griffith’s Valuation records James O’Reilly and Joseph Lynch holding some of these lands while Clonervy was in the possession of the Earl Annesley.
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Annesley
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Arthur, 1st Earl of Anglesey, was granted large tracts of lands in counties Tipperary, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and other counties under the Acts of Settlement. When Richard, 6th Earl of Anglesey, died in 1761 there was some dispute over the legitimacy of his successor. The Irish estates eventually passsed to his son Arthu,r Viscount Valentia, created Earl of Mountnorris in 1793. The English estates passed to his cousin Richard, 5th Lord Altham. The 2nd Earl Mountnorris died without surviving male heirs in 1844 and the title Viscount Valentia passed to his cousin Arthur Annesley of Bletchington, Oxfordshire. Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia, was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Ballinvoher, barony of Corkaguiny, county Kerry, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The family's principal estates were in counties Cavan, Down and Queen's (Laois) and their main seat was at Bletchingdon Park, Woodstock, Oxford. In 1866, over 1600 acres of the estate of Arthur Annesley in the barony of Corkaguiny, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. In 1876, the 5th Earl of Annesley owned an estate of 24,221 acres in county Cavan while other family members held a further 3,600 acres in the county. Most of the Annesley estate was in the parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw but also in the parishes of Tomregan, Kilmore, Drumlane, Drung and Laragh. Other parts of this extensive estate were in the parishes of Annagelliff, Kildallan, Annagh, Castleterra, Lavey and Urney.
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