Favour Royal
Favour Royal (previously known as Portclare) is a manor and estate in
History
Portclare was granted, in 1613, by
John Moutray married the Erskine heiress of Favour Royal, and the original house was built by them in 1670.
The demesne comprised 740 acres (3.0 km2) of fertile and highly cultivated land, and is finely diversified and richly wooded.[
See also
- Augher Castle, built by Sir Thomas Ridgeway
References
- ^ Hill, George (1877). An Historical Account of the plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century: 1608-1620. M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr. pp. 264–266, 539, 541, 615.
- ^ A Statistical Account, Or, Parochial Survey of Ireland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Clergy. 1819. pp. 139, 141–142.
- ^ a b Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Portclare". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland.
- ^ a b c d "Favor Royal, Favour Royal Road, Augher, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, BT77 OEW". Northern Ireland Environment Agency. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ^ Brann, Henry Athanasius (1892). Most Reverend John Hughes, first archbishop of New York. New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 20.
- ^ "Register of Parks, Gardens and Demesnes of Special Historic Interest" (PDF). Northern Ireland Environment Agency. p. 33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ^ "Favour Royal Forest". ni direct. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ^ "Favour Royal". Coillte. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ^ "Favour Royal Estate, Favour Royal Road, Augher, BT77". Eadie, McFarland & Co. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
This article incorporates text from A topographical dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis, a publication from 1837 (reprinted 1984), now in the public domain in the United States.
External links
- Media related to Favor Royal Demesne at Wikimedia Commons
- Photos of Favour Royal on Flickr
- People’s Millennium Forest Derrygorry & Favour Royal