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Clements (Ashfield)
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The manor of Ashfield was granted to Sir Thomas Ashe in 1611. [Malsomson, The Clements Archive, p 58]. In 1714, it was leased by Robert Clements of Rathkenny (1664-1722) from Thomas Ashe of the city of Dublin. The estate was bought by Nathaniel Clements in 1764 from the Ashe family. The Clements family of Ashfield, county Cavan, descend from a younger son of the Right Honourable Nathaniel Clements, father of the 1st Earl of Leitrim. In the 1850s the estate of Colonel Henry Theophilus Clements of Ashfield was in the parish of Kildrumsherdan. In the mid-1870s he owned 3,908 acres in county Cavan, 752 acres in county Leitrim and 174 acres in county Waterford. In 1878, following the murder of the 3rd Earl of Leitrim, Colonel Clements inherited the estates of the Earl at Lough Rynn in county Leitrim and at Rosshill in county Galway.
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Clements/Lucas-Clements
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In the mid-17th century Robert Clements, son of Daniel Clements, owned large estates in counties Down and Cavan. He was attainted in 1689 but his county Cavan estate was restored to him under William III. By his wife, a Miss Sandford of Castlerea, county Roscommon, he had three sons. His youngest son, Nathaniel, was father of the 1st Earl of Leitrim. His second son, Robert, held the Rathkenny estate in county Cavan and died in 1723. He was succeeded by his son Theophilus Clements. In 1795, Theophilus’ daughter Elizabeth Anne, married as his first wife, the Reverend Edward Lucas of the Castle Shane, county Monaghan, family and it was this couple’s son Theophilus E. Lucas, who eventually inherited the Rathkenny estate. Theophilus assumed the name and arms of Clements in 1823 and was succeeded in 1852 by his son, Theophilus Lucas-Clements, who held an estate in the parishes of Drung, Kildrumsherdan and Mullagh at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. In 1878, he owned 2,426 acres in county Cavan and 632 acres in county Meath.
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