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Colonel John Browne (1638-1711) was the founder of the Browne dynasty of Westport.

He was a successful and able lawyer with a large practice in Dublin. He helped finance his brother-in-law Theobald who was in debt and had to repair and restock his estate. Owing to Theobald being unable to pay him back, much of his estate evebyakkt came into Browne’s hands either by purchase from Theobald and partly from purchase from transplanted persons who had been given some of his lands.

John Browne became a colonel in the army King James II and fought at Limerick. He supplied the Jacobite army with bayonets, firelicks, swords grenades, pick axes and cannonballs. He received no payment for most of these. Following the defeat much of his lands were confiscated and he was imprisoned for debt. Most of his lands were  sold off. His remaining estates centred on a few hundred acres around Westport and Aghagower.