Rorke/O'Rorke (Westmeath)

Name	Description
Rorke/O'Rorke (Westmeath)	In Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) John O’Rorke held land in the parishes of Kilkenny West, Noughavel and Drumraney, county Westmeath. John Rorke appears to have been a solicitor of Upper Temple Street, Dublin and of Tyrrelstown, county Dublin. Lands belonging to John Rorke in counties Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Westmeath were for sale in the Landed Estates Court in January 1862. His second son John Rorke Junior lived at Johnstown House, Enfield, county Meath. Details of this family are recorded in The Irish Jurist, Vol 16 (1864), 409 and Walford (1860), 792.
Blackney	James Blakeney/Blackney of Fort Castle, Philipstown, [now Daingean], county Offaly, held the townland of Corr situated in the parishes of Drumraney and Kilkenny West, county Westmeath in the 1850s; some, if not all of it, held from John O’Rorke. He was the son of Walter Blackney of Ballyellen, county Carlow. Corr was for sale in the Landed Estates Court in April 1860. In 1878, James’ son, Charles A Blackney, married Margaret Josephine, only daughter of Terence O’Reilly, solicitor of Dublin (The Irish Law Times, May 1878, 274). At this time Charles A Blackney of The Castle, Philipstown, is recorded as owning 886 acres in county Westmeath.