Just thought you may be interested in this History.
In 1656 TheseDominic O'Dowda was granted 1500 acres in Kilgarvan Parish. These lands passed to David O'Dowda and then to Thady. [Thaddeus] Members of the family fought in rimattle of Aughrim
and were noted Catholic Gaelic Gentry. who had there own court poet.One Eoghan Ui Ghabhainn often graced O'Dowdastown with verse.
The best known of this landed gentry was James Baron O'Dowda who improved the Bonniconlon estate; and led the tenants in the up-rising of 1798. He was hanged in Ballinamuck. His son, Thady
was the last of the Bonniconlon landlords. He provided the site for the first Bonniconlon National School in 1843. His generosity and leniency during the great Famine led to his bankruptcy. The house was sold under the Encumbered Estates Act of 1849.It was sold to Charles Downing in 1854.
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