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Humphrys/Humphreys (Ballyhaise)
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William Humphrys bought the Ballyhaise estate, parish of Castleterra, county Cavan, from the Newburgh family around the year 1800. He was High Sheriff of the county in 1822. In the mid-19th century the main part of the second William Humphrys’ (1798-1872) estate was in the parish of Castleterra. He also held townlands in the parishes of Annagh, Denn, Castlerahan and Crosserlough. In 1876 his son, another William Humphrys, owned 5,146 acres in the county and his brother Armitage Eglantine Humphrys of Lisagoan, county Cavan, owned 367 acres. William died in 1877 and was succeeded by his brother John Winter Humphrys. James M’Lenahan was agent to this estate in the 1840s and 1850s.
Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records William Humphrys holding an extensive estate in the parish of Kilcleagh (15 townlands) and one townland in that of Kilmanaghan, county Westmeath, amounting to 3,146 acres in the 1870s.
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Newburgh (Ballyhaise)
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Grants under the Acts of Settlement record a grant of 973 aces in county Cavan to Samuel Battaley in February 1666/7 which Battaley then sold to Thomas Newburgh of Ballyhaise, by deed dated 24 October 1667, for £500. Broghill Newburgh inherited the Ballyhaise estate in county Cavan in the very early 18th century. He was the second son of Thomas Newburgh and his wife Mary, daughter of Brockhill Taylor of Ballyhaise. He was High Sheriff of the county in 1704 and for more than ten years represented the county in Parliament. He developed his estate, laid out plans for the town and built the castle. His son Arthur worked for the linen board and married Florence Cole. Their eldest son Brockhill Newburgh had two children, a son Arthur and a daughter Frances who married Hamilton Haire. In May 1800 Arthur Newburgh was killed in a duel with James Corry. He was aged about 30 and married to Eliza Marianne, daughter and heiress of Jacob Camac of Greenmount, county Louth, and of the East India Company. Following Arthur Newburgh’s death in 1800 much of the estate was sold to William Humphrys, a Dublin merchant. However, in the mid-19th century Arthur Robert Camac Newburgh, born 1798, still held ten townlands in the parish of Castleterra, county Cavan. One of his sisters was married to Samuel Hutchins of Ardnagashel, Bantry, county Cork. In the mid-1870s, Arthur Newburgh was the owner of 1,563 acres in county Cavan. He was an officer in the Life Guards and lived in later life at Bantry, county Cork. He died in 1875 and is buried in Garryvurcha graveyard, Bantry. See Anglo-Celt, 12 April 1850 - Article entitled ‘History of Ballyhaise’ and https://theirishaesthete.com/category/cavan/page/2/ The estate was for sale in the Land Judges' Court in April 1877.
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McLenahan
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The Anglo Celt of 30 March 1849 records James M’Lenahan, Lisagoan, county Cavan, as a Poor Law Guardian for Ballyhaise. James M’Lenahan was agent to the Humphrys’ Ballyhaise estate and was referred to as Mr Humphry’s ‘popular and indulgent agent’ at the Ballyhaise Estates Farming Society dinner as reported in the Anglo Celt of 3 December 1857. He sat on the Grand Jury for the Cavan Spring Assizes in 1859. In the mid-1850s James McLenahan held the townland of Drumhurt (251 acres) in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, county Cavan. In 1876, James M’Lenehan of Esk-bank, Dalkeith, Scotland, owned 893 acres in county Cavan, 29 acres in county Down and 144 acres in county Monaghan.
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