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Irwin (Bilberry Hill)
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Walker's Hibernian Magazine (Vol MDCCXC, 192) records the marriage of Daniel Irwin of Bilberry Hill, county Cavan and Miss E. Faris of Cloncorick in February 1790. David Irwin of Bilberry Hill, county Cavan, was recorded by Ambrose Leet in his directory of 1814. In the 1830s, William Irwin of Bilberry Hill, parish of Kildallan, county Cavan, was the County Coroner. He died in 1834, aged 43. David Irwin of Bilberry Hill was a cess payer in 1847. Members of the Irwin family are buried in the Kildallan Church of Ireland graveyard. Thomas ‘Irvine’ is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation as the main lessor of Doogary (318 acres) and Mullaghmore (450 acres) in the parish of Kildallan. In 1876, he owned 777 acres in county Cavan. This surname is sometimes spelt Irvine.
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Stanford (Bilberry)
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In an appendix to an account of the life of William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, edited by Thomas Warton Jones there is a family tree which records the Bedell and Stanford family connection. The Bedell family originally came to Ireland from Essex in the early 17th century. Bishop Bedell’s son Ambrose, a soldier, was granted lands in county Cavan under the Acts of Settlement. His brother, the Reverend William Bedell, was vicar of Kinawley and had a daughter Isabella who married Major Daniel French of Belturbet (died 1702). Their daughter Eleanor married John Stanford of Belturbet and this couple eventually inherited the Bedell estate in county Cavan. In the mid-19th century Captain Bedell Stanford held land in the parishes of Kildallan and Killashandra. He married Elizabeth Gale and their son, John Woodward Stanford, owned 605 acres in county Cavan in 1876 and William J. Stanford of Dublin owned 798 acres. Other members of the Stanford family were the composer Charles Villier Stanford (1852-1924) and William Bedell Stanford (1910-1984), classical scholar and Irish senator.
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