Monday 22 January 2024

Stuart Hall Album

I am indebted to those who send me old pictures of Northern Ireland's great heritage.

STUART HALL is a worthy example.

It gives me great pleasure to post these old images.

The Earls Castle Stewart were the second-greatest landowners in County Tyrone (after the Dukes of Abercorn), with 32,615 acres in the 1870s.
Stuart Hall was built about 1760.


It was originally a three-storey Georgian block with a pillared porch, joined to an old tower-house by a 19th century Gothic wing.

The top two storeys of the main block were later removed, giving it the appearance of a Georgian bungalow.

The mansion house was burnt by the IRA in July, 1972, and subsequently demolished.


A bungalow was built on the site in 1987.

Stuart Hall was actually larger than it appeared from the entrance front, due to high basement or storey to the rear.
Paul Wood has kindly sent me some old photographs taken by his grandfather, William Homewood, who used to travel with the family to Ireland and Scotland.

His grandmother told him that the people (in the photos) were very kind.

It is thought that the gamekeeper's wife was the housekeeper.
They are ca 1919-22. Paul Wood's mother was brought up at Old Lodge on the estate.

I'm afraid I don't know the names of the gamekeeper and his wife.
I have written at length about STUART HALL near Stewartstown in County Tyrone.
First published in November, 2010.

1 comment :

Anonymous said...

The Castle Stewarts are still active in the county. See - http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/Guggenheim39s-grandson-to-auction-grazing.6620899.jp