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Reynolds (Loughscur)
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George Reynolds of Loughscur, county Leitrim, died in 1769. His only son George Nugent Reynolds was the owner of Letterfine in the late 18th century. In 1786, he was killed in a duelling incident by Robert Keon, leaving a son and two daughters. His son George Nugent Reynolds (1770-1802) was a noted ballad writer. McParlan records Mr. Reynolds of Letterfyan as a resident proprietor in Leitrim in 1802. His two sisters were his co-heiresses. Mary married John Peyton of Laheen (2 children) and secondly Richard McNamara. Bridget married Richard Young of Tully, county Cavan, who took the surname Reynolds in accordance with his brother-in-law's will, (no children). Members of the Reynolds family were High Sheriffs of Leitrim four times in the seventeenth century. See entry for George Nugent Reynolds in the the Dictionary of Irish Biography, https://www.dib.ie/biography/reynolds-george-nugent-a7640
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