Creation of Ballinlass estate caused evictions?

Thank you for your comments. The Ballinlass townland I am referring to is located in the parish of Killeroran. It is different from the Ballinlass located in the parish of Ballynakill, where the forced evictions mentioned in your links took place. They are however rather close to one another. Most of the Kenny family emigrated to America in the 1850s. I was able to find living relatives in Ireland, who were not aware of the exodus of their family, but amazingly still live on the plot of the Kenny ancestors, as shown on the Griffith’s map.

There are hundreds of descendants of the Kenny-Cahill (Family names of husband and wife) families now living in the United States, and my wife is a member of the John Kenny branch who emigrated first near Manchester England before going to Fall River, Massachusetts. My posting is a follow-up to comments made by my mother in law in the 1980s, when I was documenting her side of the family on my newly acquired genealogy software. She passed away in 2002 and unfortunately, I never looked for further information from her. Her comment was that pressure from landlords to convert their lands for pastures was one of the reasons for the migration.

It could be that in fact the family was traumatized by the forced evacuations of Ballinlass (of Ballynakill) that took place a few miles away. However, I notice that the family moved first from Ballinlass (of Killeroran) to Cornadrum, then to Cornananta More (misspelled in my original post). It could indicate that there were local events making their life difficult. The 1855 Griffith’s map shows the D’Arcy estate, then occupied by Malachy Fallon, and located in Ballinlass, in the same way as the Castle French property: trees, alleyways, greenish background. Hence my original post: could the creation of this estate have displaced the Kenny-Cahill family, prior to the Great Famine?

I will see if I can find more on the d’Arcy family. Thanks again for your post.

It is unlikely that your Kenny ancestor's farm was in Ballinlass Demesne (the area you have highlighted on your map that is shaded darker and planted with trees; this was held in fee by the landlord at Ballinamore and sub-let to a gentleman/agent).

The "Ballenlass" Tithe Records here also encompasses the surrounding townlands e.h. BALLINVOHER NORTH and SOUTH (denoted as "road") GORTACOOSAUN ("Coosaune") etc.  So it is entirely possible that they were right where you believe they migrated to. Corssing over a townland or two was more common than is believed...

It could be that this family could only qualify for 7 years leases (common at that time for small farms). This forced small-holders to move more frequently than those who held larger (more affluent) farms in their own name (or on behalf of a rundale). 

Your best bet would be to follow any Encumbered Estates sale of the townlands you mentioned (newspaper archives or FindMyPast) as the paperwork would tell you exacty what type of leases were in place there. 

Hello, I now live at the farm in Ballinlass, I wonder does anyone know when the grainger family took it over ?

Hello Conall,  Are you related to the Moores by the name of Martin, Molly and their children? I know they farmed at Ballinlass  

Rebecca