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Slacke/Slack
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Rev. William Slacke, with an address at Newcastle, county Down, owned over 2000 acres in Leitrim in 1878. In 1856 a Rev. William Slack was occupying a property at Kiltubbrid owned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He was also the lessor of Lakeview House in Mohill parish to William Lawder and townlands in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire at that time. In May1859 the property at Annadale was being offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court by the Norris family. In July of that year Arthur Keene, the assignee of Thomas Slack, an insolvent, offered for sale the rental of lands at Drumcong or Bellview, in the barony of Leitrim. In January 1865 Anne Cunningham and William and Randal Slack were offering for sale the lands at Drumcong and Drumdart in the baronies of Leitrim and Mohill. Randal T. Slack, heir of William L. Slack offered over 100 acres for sale in the Land Judges Court in July 1879. The lands, in the barony of Carrigallen, had been purchased by William Slack from the Armstrong estate in 1878.
The Slackes also held land in county Cavan, at least four townlands in the parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw, on the Cavan/Leitrim border. These lands were held from the Beresford family, Earls of Tyrone and Marquesses of Waterford. Accounts in Cavan Library record Randal Slacke purchasing some of these lands including Ballymagauran from Frederick Lawder in the late 1740s. Ballymagauran was situated on the border between counties Cavan and Leitrim. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Thomas and Arthur R. Slack each held two townlands in the parish of Templeport. A branch of the Slacke family came to live in a house named Marshwood in Ballymagauran in the 1860s. On 12 November 1861 the lands of Cornaguinla and Stranadarragh, the estate of Arthur Richardson Slake, were advertised for sale in the Landed Estates Court. These lands were originally leased by Randal Slacke from George Kirkwood of Cavan town in 1754. The sale was re advertised in April 1864 this time in the name of Godfrey Shaw Slacke. In 1876 Susanna Slack of The Copse, Ballymagauran, owned 341 acres and John Shaw Slack of Stranadarragh, Bawnboy, owned 32 acres in county Cavan.
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