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style. Captain Moutray also commissioned the building of a private chapel on the estate, consecrated on 3 July 1835, which is now the parish church of St Mary's, Portclare. Favour Royal continued to be the family home of the Moutrays until 1976, when the house, demesne and contents were sold. It was
176:. Favour Royal Forest is one of Ireland's Millennium Forest sites. Several planning applications were submitted for permission to restore Favour Royal as a hotel and golf course, but these expired, and the house was on the market in 2013. 148:, as an apprentice gardener - Hughes would go on to become the Catholic Archbishop of New York in 1842. The old house was destroyed in 1823 by an accidental fire, and was replaced with a larger structure by Captain John Corry Moutray of 1315: 168:, and is built of freestone found on the estate. It is embellished with a noble portico, and with elegant architectural details. The demesne includes an ornamental lake and an 18th-century walled garden, and is listed on the 129:, under the name Favour Royal. The estate was subsequently divided between Sir James Erskine's two granddaughters. Favour Royal comprises one part, while the other, lying to the west of Augher, is known as Spur Royal or 169: 515: 37: 508: 21: 1320: 1310: 501: 164:
The demesne comprised 740 acres (3.0 km) of fertile and highly cultivated land, and is finely diversified and richly wooded. The house is situated on the bank of the
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John Moutray married the Erskine heiress of Favour Royal, and the original house was built by them in 1670. In 1816 the Moutrays briefly employed a local boy,
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recorded Ridgeway's grants as comprising 3,000 acres (12 km) of arable land and extending over the present towns of
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An Historical Account of the plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century: 1608-1620
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A Statistical Account, Or, Parochial Survey of Ireland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Clergy
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Register of Parks, Gardens and Demesnes of Special Historic Interest
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Register of Parks, Gardens and Demesnes of Special Historic Interest
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to design the new building, which was completed in 1825 in a
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People’s Millennium Forest Derrygorry & Favour Royal
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Most Reverend John Hughes, first archbishop of New York
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Index

Favour Royal is located in Northern Ireland
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County Tyrone
Northern Ireland
townland
Favor Royal Demesne
Augher
Irish border
Errigal-Trough
barony
Clogher
James I
Sir Thomas Ridgeway
plantation of Ulster
Samuel Lewis
Aughnacloy
Augher
Alexander Erskine of Gogar
Charles II
Augher Castle

John Hughes
Castle Coole
John Hargrave
Tudor revival
River Blackwater
Register of Parks, Gardens and Demesnes of Special Historic Interest
Forest Service Northern Ireland
Augher Castle
An Historical Account of the plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century: 1608-1620

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