Visitor Attractions in County Tyrone - Drum Manor Forest Park, Lissan House, Tullyhogue Fort, Ulster American Folk Park, Tyrone Crystal (Paperback)

Chapters: Drum Manor Forest Park, Lissan House, Tullyhogue Fort, Ulster American Folk Park, Tyrone Crystal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lissan House is a historic house and tourist attraction in Northern Ireland. Lissan lies nestled at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains amid ancient woodland near the historic market town of Cookstown. The estate was home to the Staples family from about 1620 until the death of the last incumbent, Hazel Radclyffe-Dolling (n e Staples) in April 2006, the longest known occupation by a single family of a domestic dwelling in Ireland.Thomas Staples had originally come from Yate Court, near Bristol in Southwestern England, in about 1610 as part of the plantation of Ulster. He settled in the town of Moneymore (then being constructed as part of the terms of the Plantation Grant to the Worshipful Company of Drapers who had been granted large swathes of the new County in 1611) in County Londonderry and his stone house is marked in a map of 1635 as in the centre of the town beside the Market Cross. In around 1620 he married Charity Jones, heiress of Sir Baptist Jones, head of the Worshipful Company of Vintners. In 1628, he was created the first Baronetof Lissan and Faughanvale by King Charles I. Around the same date, he purchased several leases including the lands of the town of Cookstown and 180 acres (0.73 km) at Tatnagilta (now the Lissan estate). It is thought that a dwelling existed on the estate at this time along with an Iron Forge which was used to smelt the iron deposits found across the estate. Mainly as a result of the existence of the forge, the dwelling house survived the Rebellion of 1641 when the estate was seized by the O'Quin who had marched with a troop of rebels from Castlecaulfield. Charity, Lady...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=13449922