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Coyne (Lacken)
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In 1667, John Coyne was granted an estate of 576 statute acres at Clonoose and Callanagh in the parish of Drumlumman, barony of Clanmahon, county Cavan. Nicholas Coyne of Clonoose was High Sheriff of the county in 1753. The Farnham Papers contain a copy of an undated recovery by Nicholas Coyne of lands in county Cavan [Ms 41,145/2]. By the mid-18th century the Coyne estate had expanded into the parish of Castlerahan and into county Westmeath. The estate in both counties was surveyed by James Campbell in 1759-1760 and maps prepared for the sale of the property. An entry in 'Notes and Queries', Vol 148, page 401 (6 June 1925) records Nicholas Coyne as the son of John Coyne of Lacken, county Westmeath. John's will was dated 24 July 1742 and proved in 1752. In 1755, Nicholas married Anne Eccles of Fintona, county Tyrone and died six years later. He had [two] daughters, co-heiresses. One married Delamer [James Woods ''Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern'', p 140] and the other Anne, married John D'Arcy. The D'Arcys' granddaughter Margaret was the immediate lessor of Clonoose Little in the mid-1850s, while Margaret's brother John D'Arcy was described as 'of Lacken'.
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