[4][5] Lestrange had a castle called Castlereogh near Athleague,[4][1] in what is now the townland of Castlestrange in the civil parish of Fuerty, County Roscommon.
[1] He led the garrison defending Loughrea Castle in a 1577 siege during the Mac an Iarla War.
[6] In August 1584 John Perrot appointed him knight bachelor and member of the Privy Council of Ireland.
[1][7] In 1585 Lestrange was a commissioner in the Composition of Connacht and member of the Irish Parliament for County Galway,[1] and deputed for Richard Bingham as Lord President of Connaught.
[6] He held the Aran Islands for a few years but in 1588 his title was ruled to be defective, although he stayed on as tenant of the new proprietor, Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.