who lost the election. McGee voted for Lord Newtownbutler (later Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough) who was elected Member of Parliament for Cavan County and for Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham, who lost the election. Absence from the poll book either meant a resident did not vote or more likely was not a freeholder entitled to vote, which would mean most of the inhabitants of Brackley. A lease dated 10 December 1774 from William Crookshank to John Enery of Bawnboy includes the lands of Brackley and Boonbegg. A further deed by John Enery dated 13 December 1774 includes the three poles of Brackley otherwise Bracklea. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as Bracklagh. A lease dated 17 September 1816 John Enery of Bawnboy includes Brackley otherwise called the two Brackleys. In the 1825 Registry of Freeholders for County Cavan there was one freeholder registered in Brackley- Michael Cassidy. He was a Forty-shilling freeholders holding a lease for lives from his landlord, Francis Finley. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list nineteen tithepayers in the townland. In 1833 two people in Brackley were registered as a keeper of weapons- Charles Carson and Launcelott Fiffe. The Brackley Valuation Office Field books are available for 1839–1840. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists thirty nine landholders in the townland. On 12 June 1921, Dean John Finlay, a 78 year old Protestant clergyman, was shot dead in an IRA raid on his home at Brackley House. Brackley School Brackley School was actually located in the townland of Mullaghlea, not Brackley. Census In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are fourteen families listed in the townland, and in the 1911 census of Ireland, there are thirteen families listed in the townland. Antiquities The chief structures of historical interest in the townland are: An earthen ringfort. Brackley House The site of the old Templeport Parochial Hall Two flint scrapers and an iron wedge were found in the townland References External links The IreAtlas Townland Data Base Townlands of County Cavan