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Montgomery
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Hugh Lyons Montgomery was MP for Leitrim, 1852-57 and served as High Sheriff in 1840. In 1876 the Montgomery estate held over 10,000 acres in county Leitrim. This included lands in the parish of Drumlease, barony of Dromahaire. The 1940s Irish Tourist Association survey records that the family were reputedly extravagent, a factor which eventually led to the break up of the estate in the early 1900s. The Acts of Settlement Grants indicate that Capt. Hugh Montgomery received property in the town of Athenry, county Galway as well as extensive lands in county Leitrim and county Longford, the latter jointly with Hugh Campbell.
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Montgomery (Convoy & Inishowen)
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Robert Montgomery’s estate was among the principal lessors in the parish of Inver, Barony of Banagh and the parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North as well as the parishes of Convoy and Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, County Donegal at the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s. Reverend Samuel Montgomery’s estate was leasing property in the parish of Killaghatee, barony of Banagh and Moville Lower, barony of Inishowen East, at the same time. The estate of Robert George Montgomery amounted to almost 9000 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. The Montgomery family were of Scottish descent and descend from Alexander Montgomery who came to Donegal in the seventeenth century. Burke suggests that they were connected with the Montgomery family of Beaulieu, County Louth.
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