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Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy was born on 5 May 1798 to parents, Elizabeth Homan Mulock and Laurence Bomford Molloy. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, achieving a B.A. in 1818, M.A. in 1825 and M.D. in 1826. On 5 February 1828 he married Frances Sophia Berry, daughter of John Berry, and Elizabeth Bury, daughter of William Bury, uncle of the 1st earl of Charleville. Together they had fifteen children; Frances Elizabeth, Thomas Homan Mulock, John Berry, Elizabeth Georgina, Thomas Lawrence, Richard Homan, Mary Mulock, Lawrence Bomford, William Bury, Hester Jane, Anne Homan, Henry Pilkington, Homan, Francis Berry, and George Phillips.

In 1843, Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy inherited Bellair House and estate from his uncle, Thomas Homan Mulock. He was directed on becoming entitled to the estates to take the sole name and arms of Homan-Mulock. He served as Justice of the Peace for King’s County, and he was later appointed High Sheriff for the County in 1849. Following the Famine years, many of the tenants had immigrated to America or died, the estate was in poor condition. Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy died at Bellair on 25 June 1889, and was buried at Liss.

William Bury Homan Mulock was born on 19 April 1841 to Frances Sophia Berry and Thomas Homan Mulock. Educated in Trinity College and was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1862.

He served in Bombay in various roles, including Assistant-Registrar of High Court and later Assistant-Magistrate and Collector, 1862-1873; Assistant-Commissioner and Branch Inspector-General of Assurance, and Inspector of Education in Sind, 1873-1876; Collector and Magistrate, 1880; Senior Collector and Magistrate, 1885. In 1885 he chaired the Commission appointed to consider the workings of the factories in the Bombay Presidency. He retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1889 on succeeding to the family estates under his father’s will. He took possession of Bellair House in 1889, and in retirement he served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for King’s County, as well as JP for County Westmeath. In 1895 he served as High Sheriff for the King’s County.

He died in 1921 and bequeathed Bellair House to his niece, Lady Hester Nina Homan Mulock, who refused to accept it, and handed it to her niece Sheila Claude Beddington Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt.

Ballykilmurry school was a two teacher school, opened in 1910. This school closed in 1966 when a new three teacher school was built on the present site in Ballinamere.

Col. A.C. Wolseley Cox was the son of Ambrose Cox and Emily C. Wolseley. He was born in 1845 and inherited Clara House on the death of his father in 1863. He subsequently mortgaged the house and estate to fund his army career and his life in London. He married Louisa Helen Elizabeth Kirwan in 1870 and left a son, Reginald Garnett Wolseley Cox (1872-1904). Their Dublin residence at 41 Fitzwilliam Street is now known as the Fitzwilliam Townhouse. Col. Cox served as High Sherriff for King's County in 1873 but his income was insufficient to support his lifestyle and he was declared a bankrupt in 1888.

Parsonstown’s Poor Law Union was established on the 8th of May 1839. It was formed from an elected Board of Guardians, with John Drought as chairman, comprising twenty-nine elected members and nine ex-officio Guardians with all members meeting weekly. Parsonstown Union’s area of operation covered 234 square miles from two counties: from Offaly (King’s) – Banagher, Drumcullen, Eglish, Ferbane, Frankfort, Kilcoleman, Kinnety, Lemanagan, Letter, Lusmagh, Seirkyrans, Parsonstown, Shannon Bridge, Shannon Harbour and Tissarin. From County Tipperary – Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Dorha, Lockeen, Lorha and Uskeane. The Union was abolished in 1925, with the Board of Guardians powers being transferred to the county councils' Board of Health.

James A. Ennis (NUI) (E 1925), a native of Rhode, County Offaly, was educated at Mount St Joseph, Roscrea and later at University College, Dublin and qualified in 1925. A year later he was admitted a solicitor taking first place in Ireland in his final examination. He took over the Rogers practice on James Rogers being appointed county registrar in 1926. James Ennis became a member of the Tullamore Urban District Council in 1932 and later its chairman. Like his father he became a member of Offaly County Council representing Fianna Fáil of which he was a committed member. He was appointed county registrar for Offaly in September 1943 when his old partner, James Rogers decided to give up the registrarship and return to private practice. Prominent in bridge circles he was also a foundation member of the Offaly Archaeological and Historical Society and was its treasurer for many years. James A. Ennis died in March 1983 and is buried at Rhode cemetery. He had retired from the position of county registrar in 1971 but went back into private practice at his residence for a few years following his retirement as county registrar.

Thomas Weldon Trench was born on 11 Feb 1833. He was the eldest son of William Steuart Trench and Elizabeth Susanna Townsend. Thomas Weldon was installed by his father William Steuart Trench as co–agent and local magistrate on the Digby estate in Geashill in 1857. He also acted as assistant agent on the Bath estate in Co. Monaghan. During his agency in King's County, the Barony of Geashill experienced vast improvements in both the architecture of Geashill village and the topography of the landscape. While Thomas Weldon played an instrumental role in such a transformation, he adopted a hard line authoritarian style of estate management. This is reflected in his ruthless tactics to clear the estate of small tenants and beggars, in order to create larger holdings with better drainage and more advanced farming methods. The case of Alice Dillon illustrates how the actions of Thomas Weldon Trench were ruthless and hasty in dealing with the removal of a beggar woman from the estate on Christmas Eve in 1861. His actions were questioned by the Lord Chancellor, from whom he received a strong reprimand and warning, an episode he omitted in the annual reports to Lord Digby.

Hi agency was also marked by the rise of Ribbonmen and a flame of agitation likely to be the response of aggrieved tenants towards his style of management. Similar hostilities to him existed in Co. Monaghan. By 1870, Thomas Weldon Trench resigned his post as resident agent in Geashill
and subsequently became a medical volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War. This was short-lived due to illness and he returned to Ireland later that year. He died at the relatively young age of 39 in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan on 15 August 1872, which was just shortly after the death of his father, W. S., on the 4 August 1872. They are both buried in Donaghmoyne churchyard, Carrickmacross.He remained unmarried and died on the 15th of August 1872.