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Bredin
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Christopher Bredin of Rice Hill, county Cavan, was appointed High Sheriff in 1797. Edgar Robert Bredin also lived at Rice Hill. Coolnagor or Ricehill was a townland that bordered Kilmore Upper where the palace of the Bishop of Kilmore was situated. Ricehill was held by the Bredins from the Bishop. There is no mention of the Bredins at Ricehill at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and £3.10s was the highest valuation on any building in the townland. In 1851, Edgar Robert Bredin married Caroline Martha daughter of Charles James Adams of Shinan House, county Cavan and they had five sons and four daughters. The Bredins were living at Retreat when their first son John William was born in 1852. They bought some of the Moore Boyle estate in the parish of Drung which was advertised for sale in 1850. Griffith’s Valuation records the Bredin estate in the parishes of Drumlane and Drung. At the same time Edgar Robert Bredin, [of Retreat, near Cootehill, county Cavan], held the townland of Lisheennaheltia, parish of Boyounagh, barony of Ballymoe, county Galway. This townland of over a thousand acres, held in fee simple, was advertised for sale in 1856. By the mid-1850s the family appear to be resident at Ontario Lodge, Oakville, Canada. In 1876, Edgar R. Bredin of Hamilton, Ontario owned 1,629 acres in county Cavan.
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Moore (Tullyvin)
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A patent to hold courts for the Manor of Tullyvin, county Cavan, about 1,500 acres, was granted to Archibald and Brent Moore during the reign of James I. Brent Moore also acquired land in county Longford. William Moore, who endowed a school at Tullyvin, married Mary daughter of Cosby Nesbitt of Lismore and died in 1803. Mary Moore died in 1833. On 21 November 1788, James Moore Boyle of Tullyvin married Lydia daughter of Richard Moore of Rathdouney, county Laois [marriage register for the Parish of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland, 1720-1846]. The Boyles appear to have inherited the Tullyvin estate from the Moores. Maxwell James Boyle had succeeded to this estate in the parishes of Kildrumsherdan and Drung by 1827 when he is recorded as High Sheriff of the county. His son Maxwell William Boyle was in possession by the time of Griffith’s Valuation.
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Boyle (Tullyvin)
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[This estate previously belonged to the Moore family]. On 21 November 1788, James Moore Boyle of Tullyvin, county Cavan, married Lydia daughter of Richard Moore of Rathdouney, county Laois [marriage register for the Parish of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland, 1720-1846]. Their son Maxwell James Boyle married Lydia Anne Townley at Portpatrick, on 2 September 1816. By 1850, M.J. Boyle had got into financial difficulty and part of the Tullyvin estate, amounting to 2,397 acres, was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. Parts were sold to James and Thomas Fay and to Edgar R. Bredin. A further 500 acres were advertised for sale in 1858. Maxwell James Boyle of Tullyvin died in November 1854 as recorded by the Anglo Celt of 9 November. His son Maxwell W. Boyle married Honoria T., daughter of William Henry Richardson of Prospect, county Louth and they had a son Maxwell James Boyle born in 1845. In the mid-1850s, Maxwell William Boyle was the proprietor of the Tullyvin estate, county Cavan, when 12 townlands, over 2,000 acres in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, were recorded in his possession. At the time of the 1901 census Maxwell James Boyle was living at Tullyvin and in 1911 his residence was Clongee, county Mayo. Mrs Charlotte Townley of Tullyvin, owned 2,180 acres in 1876.
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Townley
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In the late 17th century there was a family of Townleys living at Drumroosk or Thomas Court, parish of Kilmore, county Cavan. Samuel Townley of Drumroosk was High Sheriff of the county in 1686. Thomas Townley of Thomas Court made his will in 1723, married a daughter of Joshua Paul and had a son Joshua Townley and a number of daughters, one of whom married in 1731 Chapell Dawson, a cousin of the 1st Viscount Cremorne [Notes & Queries]. This family of Townleys appear to be related to those of Townley Hall, county Louth. In the mid-19th century John Townley held some land in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, county Cavan. John Townley of Tullyvin House, died on 28 January 1870 and is buried in St Nicholas Church, Dundalk, county Louth. His wife Charlotte died in 1881 and is buried with her husband. In 1876 Charlotte Townley of Tullyvin owned 2,180 acres in county Cavan. [It is not clear if these two families of Townleys are related]. In 1816, Maxwell James Boyle of Tullyvin married Lydia Anne Townley in Scotland. John Maxwell James Townley of Clonervy, parish of Castleterra, was Sub Sheriff of county Cavan in 1880.
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