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West (Mohill)
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The Wests were a family from county Dublin who appear to have acquired land in Connacht by marriage. Cottage Vale house was the residence of the West family from the early 19th century. George West was leasing it from Charles Ensor in 1856. In the 1870s Reverend Augustus West was resident at Ardagh Rectory, County Longford. In 1842 he married Lucinda Digby Brooke of Prosperous, County Kildare. He owned 416 acres in county Leitrim as well as 1600 acres in county Galway and over 300 acres in county Roscommon. In January 1883 the lands of Carrownskeheen in the parish of Kilglass, barony of Ballintober North, county Roscommon, belonging to Reverend A. W. West, were advertised for sale with some land in King's County (county Offaly). The Irish Times reported the sale of this estate to Archdeacon Warburton in November 1883.
Earlier generations of the family had intermarried with the Kellys of Castle Kelly and the Lysters of Athleague. Another family member Henry West of Loughlinstown House, county Dublin, owned 605 acres in county Roscommon and three acres in county Galway.
In the 1870s, Hussey de Burgh recorded Reverend Augustus West, Dean of Ardagh, as the owner of lands in counties Galway, King’s County, Leitrim and Roscommon. Mathew West was associated with milling enterprises in the Ballymahon area at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s. Margaret West was among the principal lessors in the parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, at the same time. The representatives of Margaret West, James Bessonnet and Matthew Brinkely, were lessors of townlands in the parish of Killoe, barony of Longford. In May 1855. In February 1856 property owned by Margaret West was advertised for sale by them in the Encumbered Estates Court.
In 1852 property owned by George Beatty West was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.
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