Qualla: Baronscourt https://qualla.com/baronscourt en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Baronscourt https://qualla.com/baronscourt Baronscourt: Introduction https://qualla.com/baronscourt/ Pick a house, and pick it carefully: in 1791 the agent of the 1st Marquess of Abercorn watched the architect John Soane survey his employer's brand-new country seat and reported back, almost in disbelief, on what was about to happen. 'He just reverses the house,' the agent wrote. 'What was the backside is to be the entrance, and the front part of the rere.' Baronscourt, only a decade old, was about to be turned around on its own foundations. That kind of confident reordering tells you a lot about the people who lived there. The Dukes of Abercorn, the Hamilton family, were a Lowland Scots dynasty planted in west Tyrone at the start of the Plantation of Ulster, and they have been remaking the place ever since.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/baronscourt-wp/gcdx-baronscourt-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Baronscourt: From the Ó Néills to the Hamiltons https://qualla.com/baronscourt/ Before any Hamilton crossed the Irish Sea, this stretch of forest and water belonged to a senior branch of the Ó Néill dynasty - the Gaelic kings of Tír Eoghain. One of their towerhouses sat on Island McHugh, a crannóg in what is now called Lough Catherine, just north of the mode...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/baronscourt-wp/gcdx-baronscourt-soane-reverses-the-plan.mp3 0:06 3 full Baronscourt: A Raid at Dawn https://qualla.com/baronscourt/ On 17 May 1918, with the Irish War of Independence approaching, Baronscourt became a target. The 3rd Duke was chairman of the Ulster Unionist Council and had urged Loyalist forces to 'die if necessary in opposing home rule'; the house was widely understood to be a depot for Ulste...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/x/baronscourt-wp/gcdx-baronscourt-a-raid-at-dawn.mp3 0:06 4 full Baronscourt: The Italian Garden, The Golf, The Lough https://qualla.com/baronscourt/ Baronscourt today is a working estate. The neo-classical mansion, Grade A listed, sits in an Italianate parkland of formal gardens and woodland that runs down to the loughs and the wider demesne. The 18-hole golf course celebrated its centenary in 2014. The traditional burial pla...

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