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Smyth (Barbaville and New Park)
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William Smythe (1693-1773) of Barbaville was a younger son of the Right Rev William Smythe, Bishop of Kilmore of the Gaybrook family. In 1808 Ralph Smyth of Barbaville, Collinstown, county Westmeath, married Eliza daughter and heiress of Matthew Lyster of New Park, county Roscommon. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their eldest son William Barlow Smyth of Barbaville, held 3 townlands in the parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, county Galway, previously part of the Bunowen estate of the O'Neills. Pádraig Lane states that Smyth bought 2,796 acres from the O'Neills. A copy conveyance in the Joyce, Mackie and Lougheed collection documents the William Barlow Smyth's purchase of Bunowenbeg from the O'Neills in 1852. The collection includes a rentroll of the Smyth's estate at Callow, Dolan, Bunowenbeg and part of Ballyconnelly, dated 19 November 1877.
William Barlow Smyth also held an estate in the parishes of Faughalstown and St Feighin’s, county Westmeath in the mid-nineteenth century, amounting to 2,108 acres in the 1870s. His county Galway estate was comprised of 2,449 acres and he owned 478 acres in county Meath. His cousin Captain Ralph Smythe of Newtown House, Drogheda, county Louth, owned 901 acres in county Westmeath (parish of Castletownkindalen), 549 acres in county Louth and 54 acres in county Meath. In 1886, William B Smythe was succeeded by his brother Henry Matthew Smythe. Henry Smyth of New Park, county Roscommon, married a Coote of Ballyfin and at the time of Griffith's Valuation held lands in the parishes of Kiltoom and Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. In November 1860, over 1,800 acres in county Roscommon belonging to Henry Mathew Smyth were advertised for sale. The purchasers included Messers Gannon, Gaynor, Keogh and Meredith. On 9 June 1859 William Tuthill conveyed Drominagh to Frederick Smythe and in July 1870s Frederick Smythe put the estate up for sale in the Landed Estates' Court.
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