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Rathbourne
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Richard Rathborne came from Liverpool to settle in Ireland during the reign of Charles II. He was Sheriff of Drogheda in 1686. His grandson the Reverend Richard Rathborne was ancestor of the Rathbornes of Ballymore, county Galway. Richard Rathbourne was the lessor of several townlands in the parishes of Ardrahan and Killora in the barony of Dunkellin in 1855. The Ardrahan property is also recorded in the OS Name Books from the 1830s. Some of the townlands in the parish of Killora are recorded as the property of the Massy estate at that time. Also in the 1830s the Rathbourne estate was recorded as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Kilcolgan which were in turn leased to the Persse estate. The Rathbourne family resided at Ballymore in the parish of Killora since the later 17th or early 18th century. This house appears to have been on long term lease from the Clanricarde estate. Evidence which Rathbourne gave to a Royal Commission suggests he left the area due to agrarian agitation later in the 19th century. The Reverend Richard’s younger brother, William, was the ancestor of the Rathbornes of Dublin, candle makers and of county Cavan. In the mid-19th century William Rathborne of Scripplestown, county Dublin and of Kilcogy (831 acres), county Cavan, held three townlands in the parish of Drumlumman, barony of Clanmahon, county Cavan. In the mid-1870s William Humphrey Rathborne of Finglas, Dublin, owned 1,127 acres in Cavan.
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