Holmes (Moycashel)

Name	Description
Holmes (Moycashel)	By the beginning of the 18th century this family were settled at Garryduff, barony of Moycashel, county Westmeath. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation [publ. 1854] the Holmes estate was located in the parishes of Ardnurcher, Kilbeggan and Durrow, county Westmeath. The proprietor in the 1870s was Robert William Arbuthnot Holmes who is recorded as owning 1,298 acres in the county.
Hearn (Correagh)	Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records Elizabeth ‘Heron’ as the immediate lessor of the townland of Correagh and part of the townland of Kilbeg in the parish of Ardnurcher or Horseleap, county Westmeath. The house valued at £6.10. was inhabited by Loughlin Clavin. Elizabeth Hearn was the daughter of Richard Holmes of Prospect and Garryduff, Moycashel, county Westmeath and his wife Anne Arbuthnot of Rockfleet, county Mayo. In 1815 she married Lieut Col Daniel J Hearn of Correagh (died 1837) and they had a family of seven children. Samuel Lewis in 1837 records that Correagh was not inhabited. In 1849, their eldest son Charles Bush Hearn (1818-1866) married a Greek, Rosa Cassimati and they were the parents of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), the well-known writer of books on Japan. In November 1865, the estate of Charles Bush Hearn at Correagh and Kilbeg, 593 acres, was for sale in the Landed Estates Court and again in November 1867.