Urquhart (Castle Pollard)

Name	Description
Pollard (Castle Pollard)	This family was established at Castle Pollard, county Westmeath, at the end of the 16th century. Walter Pollard’s lands were erected into the Manor of Castle Pollard by a patent of 36 Charles II. In 1696, his daughter Letitia married Charles Hampson of Achecreevy, county Cavan, who assumed the name of Pollard. In 1846, their descendant William Pollard of Castle Pollard married Mary Isabella, only daughter and heir of William Urquhart of Craigston Castle, Aberdeen and assumed the Urquhart name. In the early 20th century the Pollard estate passed through the female line to Francis James Style Humphreys who assumed the name Pollard in 1917 on succeeding his uncle. The Pollard estate was located in the parishes of Lickbla, St Feighin’s but primarily in the parish of Rathgarve (10 townlands) and amounted to over 5,000 acres.
Urquhart	In 1846, Mary Isabella, only daughter and heir of William Urquhart of Craigston Castle, Aberdeen, married William Pollard of Castle Pollard, county Westmeath. His county Westmeath estate was located in the parishes of Lickbla, St Feighin’s but primarily in the parish of Rathgarve (10 townlands). He was MP for Westmeath from 1852 to 1857 and from 1859 to 1871. In the mid- 1870s his eldest son Walter William Dutton Pollard Urquhart owned 5,363 acres in the county and 558 acres in county Meath.