In 1641, Knockbrack West was described as "common and unprofitable land". Following the
Act for the Settlement of Ireland in 1652, land held by supporters of the
Catholic Confederation was forfeited. After the further
Act of Settlement of 1662, Knockbrack West was granted to the following
Protestant Cromwellian soldiers: Captain Henry Ponsonby (brother of Sir John Ponsonby),
Lord King (a commissioner in the court of claims for Irish settlements), Henry Austin and Colonel Chidley Coote (son of
Sir Charles Coote) in 1666. Ponsonby also received several other townlands solely in his name in the parish. ==Representation==