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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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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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Geale (Kilkenny)
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Letitia Brady, one of the three heiresses to the Brady of Clonervy, county Cavan, estate married Frederick Geale of Mount Geale, county Kilkenny. The Geale's part of the Clonervy estate was in the barony of Clanmahon, county Cavan.
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