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Jones (Nahillah)
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According to a Chancery Report of 1864 John Jones was granted a lease of about 40 ‘polls’ [approximately 2,000 acres] by the Bishop of Kilmore in the Drumlane and Kildallan locality. The Jones interest became vested in John Copeland Jones (died 1854, aged 74) and then in his son David Fielding Jones. In his Statistical Survey of County Cavan (1802), Sir Charles Coote refers to “John Jones Copeland” as a principal landed proprietor. John Copeland Jones was the son of David Jones, High Sheriff in 1763, and grandson of John Jones Junior of Belturbet and Elizabeth Copeland, daughter of William Copeland who died in 1734. In the mid-19th century the representatives of John Copeland Jones held an estate mainly in the parish of Drumlane but also in the parishes of Tomregan and Annagh. David Fielding Jones of Nahillah died in 1868 and his will was proved by John Copeland Jones of Nahillah and another. In 1876 John Copeland Jones of Nahillah owned 2,235 acres in county Cavan.
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