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Lloyd (Losset)
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The Lloyds of Lossett, county Cavan, descend from a family of Lloyds who settled at New Ross, county Wexford in the 17th century. Bartholomew Clifford Lloyd was the second son of the Reverend Bartholomew Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. His first wife was Caroline Hamilton Brooke of [Brookvale], Dromavanagh, county Cavan. In the mid-19th century B.C. Lloyd held an estate in the parish of Killashandra. In 1876, this estate amounted to 1,227 acres. There is no large house marked on maps for the townland of Losset.
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Brooke (Dromavana/Drumavanagh)
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According to Burke’s (1904) William Brooke purchased Dromavana, county Cavan from the Saunderson family in 1685. He had three sons. The eldest, William of Rantavan House, county Cavan, had a son Henry of Rantavan, author of a number of books and a granddaughter Charlotte Brooke, author of ‘Translations from Irish Bards’. The Brookes of Dromavana descend from the second son Alexander and the third son the Reverend Henry Brooke was rector of Kinawley, county Fermanagh. Alexander’s son the Reverend William Brooke of Dromavana and Firmount, county Longford, had a son William Brooke MD of Dromavana, Dublin and Coolmain, county Monaghan. He married Angel daughter of Captain Edward Perry of Perrymount, county Tyrone and grand niece and heiress of Colonel Richard Graham of Coolmain. In the mid-19th century their second son, the Reverend Edward Perry Brooke, held lands in the parishes of Monaghan and Tehallan, county Monaghan. In 1876 the Reverend Brooke owned 571 acres in the county. A house known as Brookvale in the townland of Drumavanagh, on the outskirts of Cavan town, was in the possession of the Reverend Andrew Hogg in the mid-19th century. http://www.peterbrooke.org/peter-brooke-cv/family.html
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Graham (Coolmain)
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Sir Bernard Burke writes in his Vicissitudes of Hector Graham being the proprietor of large estates in counties Armagh, Tyrone and Monaghan which he was believed to have bought and holding the lease of the castle of Lea or Leix in Queen’s County. He built a mansion on his county Monaghan lands at ‘Culmaine’ or Coolmain in the parish and barony of Monaghan in 1726 and died there in 1742. Hector married Jane Walkinghawe from county Down and they had three children Richard, Hugh and Isabella who married Samuel Perry of Perrymount, county Tyrone. In 1737 Colonel Richard Graham married Martha, daughter of James Crawford of Enniskillen but they had no surviving children. The Colonel died in 1761. The Perrys’ granddaughter Angel Perry married William Brooke MD and inherited the Graham estate in county Monaghan.
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Hague (Brookvale)
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William Hague (1806-1888), building contractor, of Cavan, was the son of William Hague of Plush, county Cavan. He ran a successful business and acquired property and lands in county Cavan, including Kilnacrott. William Hague built Brookvale, Drumavanagh, in the parish of Urney, where he lived for a time with his family. He was the father of William Hague, architect of Cavan [for example Moyne Hall, see Mulligan, 259] and Dublin, who designed many Catholic churches. In 1876, William Hague held 459 acres in county Cavan. https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/2322/HAGUE%2C+WILLIAM+%5B2%5D
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