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Johnston (Kinlough)
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The Johnston family from Fermanagh purhased land in Leitrim in the early 18th century. In 1802 McParlan recorded Counsellor Johnston of Oakfield on his list of ''resident gentlemen of property''. In the mid 19th century St George Robert Johnston, third son of Robert Johnston of Kinlough House, owned a townland in each of the parishes of Killoscobe and Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway. Ballaghnagrosheen, in the parish of Killoscobe was bought from the sale of the estate of George Ruttledge in 1851. In 1861 Stephen Johnston offered for sale the house and demesne at Mount Prospect, barony of Rosclogher, previously let to the Connolly estate. Weir and Elizabeth Johnston offered for sale almost 400 acres in the parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher in January 1869. This appears to have been leased from the Earl of Leitrim's estate through the Armstrong and Cullen estates. In the 1870s William Johnston of Kinlough owned 10,633 acres in county Leitrim while his brother St George Johnston, who lived at Rathcline House, Lanesborough, county Longford, owned 1,139 acres in county Galway and 217 acres in county Leitrim. Hussey de Burgh records Robert St. George Johnston as the owner of over 3000 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. His address is given in this source as Port Nassau, Ballyshannon but the contemporary Landowner’s Survey suggests this was the house built by the Allinghams known as Portnason.
Another Robert Johnston occupied Laputa House at the time of Griffith’s Valuation.
An offer from the Congested Districts Board on over 250 acres of Forbes Johnston's estate was accepted in 1913.
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