Lord Belmont In Northern Ireland

The Viscount Brookeborough, KG, talks about his home, Colebrooke Park in County Fermanagh, in the short video below.

THE EARLS OF CHARLEVILLE WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN THE KING'S COUNTY, WITH 20,032 ACRES This family derives maternally from the extinct house of MOORE, Barons Moore, of Tullamore, and Earls of Charleville of the first creation, which sprang from a com...

THE BARONS ROSSMORE WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY MONAGHAN, WITH 14,839 ACRES The family of CAIRNES of that ilk is of very ancient standing in Scotland. In 1363, DAVID II gave a renewal charter of the two Baronies of East and West Whitburn, Linlith...

THE BARONS ATHLUMNEY WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY MEATH, WITH 10,213 ACRES This is a branch of the very eminent Scottish family of SOMERVILLE. The first of the family that settled in Ireland was JAMES SOMERVILLE (1571-1642), of Tullyk...

THE PALMER BARONETS, OF CASTLE LACKIN, WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY MAYO, WITH 80,990 ACRES THEY OWNED 3,991 ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY DUBLIN ROGER PALMER (alleged to have been the third son of Edward Palmer, of Nayton and Casterton, Norfolk) went o...

THE EARLS OF MAR AND KELLIE WERE THE LARGEST LANDOWNERS IN CLACKMANNANSHIRE, WITH 6,143 ACRES The family of Erskine probably took their name from the lands of Erskine, Renfrewshire.THE RT HON SIR ALEXANDER ERSKINE OF GOGAR, Knight, third son of John,...

THE ROBINSON BARONETS OWNED 2,941 ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY LOUTH GRACE ROBINSON (1718-76), youngest daughter of Thomas Robinson, of Rokeby, Yorkshire, and sister of Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet, and of the Most Rev Richard Robinson, Lord Archbis...