Thomas Mahon (1701-1782) constructed Strokestown House, a mansion from the 18th century. When Captain Nicholas Mahon was given more than 3,000 acres in the baronies of Roscommon and Ballintober (as payment for his assistance in the British colonial campaign), the Manor of Ballynamully (then Béal tha na mBuill, which translates as The Ford of the Town of the Strokes) was established in 1678.
Grace Catherine Mahon, the heiress, married Henry Sandford Pakenham, who took the additional name of Mahon. In the 1850s, their only son, Henry Sandford Pakenham-Mahon held land in the county Roscommon parishes of Dysart, Barony of Athlone, Kilglass, and Kilmore, Barony of Ballintober North, Kilbride, Kilgefin, Barony of Ballintober South, Cloonfinlough, Bumlin, Aughrim, Elphin, Kilbride, Kiltrustan, Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon. He was succeeded by his only child, a daughter, Olive Pakenham-Mahon.
Strokestown House was home to the Mahon family until 1979 and is now a significant tourist attraction containing the Famine Museum.
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