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Faris (Crossdoney)
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Members of the Faris family owned 645 acres in county Cavan in 1876. John Alexander Faris of Corr, Crossdoney, owned the largest portion of 379 acres. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation John Alexander Faris and Samuel Faris each held a townland in the parish of Killashandra, while William Faris lived at Cloggy House in the parish. In 1861, William Faris son of Major Faris, formerly of Mackin [Mackan], county Cavan, married Jane Elizabeth Young of Monaghan town.
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Galbraith
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In the mid-19th century William James Thomas Galbraith was leasing lands in county Cavan held under fee farm grants from members of the Carmichael family to the members of the Faris family in the 1730s and 1740s. His estate of 881 acres in the parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, was for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851 and 1852. It included the house and demesne of Mackan.
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Carmichael (Castle Craig)
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In the early 18th century the Carmichael family were in possession of the manor of Castle Craig, county Cavan. By 1740, the ownership of the Castle Craig manor and lands in the barony of Carrigallen, county Leitrim, appear to have been in dispute between John Carmichael and Robert Craig. In 1758, Robert 2nd Baron Farnham purchased the manor comprised of 5,900 statute acres in the parishes of Killashandra and Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, for £18,900. He bought a further 2,200 acres from the Carmichaels in the same parishes in 1765. Documents in the National Library's collection of Farnham Papers record the Carmichael ownership of the manor of Castle Craig.
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