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Metge (Dardistown)
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The Metges were a Huguenot family – Pierre Metgé settled at Athlumney, county Meath in the early 18th century. His son Peter was MP for Ardee 1776 and for Boyle 1783. Peter’s son John was MP for Dundalk and Deputy Auditor General of the Irish Treasury. By his second wife Henrietta, a daughter of Henry Cole Bowen of Bowen’s Court, he had two sons Peter of Athlumney and John Charles of Dardistown, county Westmeath and Sion, county Meath. John Charles married Eliza Cole and they had two sons and two daughters. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation [publ. 1854] John C ‘Medge’ was a principle lessor in the Westmeath parish of Killagh. His county Westmeath estate amounted to 968 acres in the mid-1870s, while his older brother Peter Ponsonby Metge owned 788 acres in county Meath. Francis Burton Metge succeeded his father at Dardistown and married Anne Cole Bowen.
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