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Pallas/Palles
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Burke records this family as of Italian origin. Andrew Pallas/Palles was located at ‘Cloncavat’, county Cavan in the mid-17th century. His descendant another Andrew Palles of Mount Pallas, county Cavan, married Jane Read in 1737. Their third son Andrew lived at Grouse Hall, county Cavan. Mountpallas was in the parish of Kilbride, barony of Clanmahon. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation it was held in fee by Edward Rotheram. A herd’s house valued at £1 was located in the townland. In the mid-19th century Andrew Christopher Pallas, grandson of Andrew and Jane, held an estate in the parishes of Ballintemple, Crosserlough and Kilbride. Some of his land was held from George R. Dawson. In 1876, A.C. Pallas of Dublin owned 225 acres in county Cavan.
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Dawson (Castle Dawson)
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This Dawson family came from Westmoreland and settled in Ireland at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1633, Thomas Dawson purchased the lands of Castle Dawson, county Derry from George and Dudley Philips. The estate was in the possession of Arthur Dawson of Moyola Park, county Londonderry, at the beginning of the 19th century. Griffith’s Valuation records Arthur’s son, George Robert Dawson, as the proprietor of lands in the parish of Ballintemple, barony of Clanmahon, county Cavan. George Webb and Andrew Pallas both held some of the Dawson estate. G.R. Dawson married Mary daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and their son Robert Peel Dawson of Londonderry owned 1,116 acres in county Cavan and 2,618 acres in county Derry in the mid-1870s. The Reverend Andrew Hamond Snape Dawson who also owned land in county Cavan is believed to be descended from a younger son of Joshua Dawson of Castle Dawson, Secretary for Ireland in the reign of Queen Anne, died 1727. The lands of the Reverend Hammond Dawson were in the parish of Killinkere and amounted to 528 acres in 1876. He also owned 252 acres in county Fermanagh. The Reverend Hammond Dawson was a son of Rear Admiral John Dawson of Carrickfergus, county Down and county Cavan. His sister Mrs Wrixon also owned 514 acres in county Cavan in the parish of Larah at this time.
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