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Magan (Umma)
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The family descend from Humphrey Magan of Emoe or Umma-More, Ballymoe, County Westmeath in the late seventeenth century. In 1703, Thomas Magan of Togherstown Gent. bought about 1,440 acres in the barony of Rathconrath from the Trustees of forfeited estates including 234 acres of Togherstown. William Henry Magan (1819-1860) of Clonearl, King’s County (Co Offaly) was a first cousin of George Magan of Kilcleagh, county Westmeath, born 1828. He was the lessor of lands in many County Westmeath parishes in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly in Conry, Killare, Lynn and Noughaval, He also held land in counties Dublin and Kildare. Various sale rentals record the extent of his estates as they were sold in the Encumbered Estates Court 1853-1854. He married Lady Georgina C Keppel (died 1854), daughter of the 4th Earl of Albemarle but they had no children. He was an MP for county Westmeath. He died in 1860 and appears to have been succeeded by his mother as in the 1870s Mrs Georgina Magan of Killyon, County Meath, owned 5,604 acres in County Westmeath and other estates in counties Kildare, King’s County [Offaly], Meath and Dublin, which eventually passed to William’s sister Augusta Elizabeth Magan, who died in 1905. She was succeeded by her cousin Mrs Georgina Bartlett of Clonearl who died in 1910. The remaining County Westmeath lands were sold in the ensuing years.
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