Robert Stewart of Irry (1598–1662) was an Irish rebel. A colonel in the army, he was a prominent figure in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and afterwards defended against the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland as Governor of the Castles of Antrim and Toome . His home outside Stewartstown, County Tyrone - Irry, sometimes also spelt Eary - was later renamed Stuart Hall by his grandson, the 7th Baron Castle Stewart . He died at Roughan Castle .
28-654: Stewartstown may refer to: United Kingdom [ edit ] Stewartstown, County Tyrone , a village in Northern Ireland Stewartstown Harps GFC , a GAA club Stewartstown railway station , a disused Great Northern Railway station Stewartstown, Belfast , a city council ward in the Collin electoral district United States [ edit ] Stewartstown, New Hampshire Stewartstown, Pennsylvania Stewartstown Railroad ,
56-400: A castle) and laid the foundation of a village. The Irish name for Stewartstown, An Chraobh (the branch tree) can figuratively apply to a fort or mansion and is preserved in the name Crew Hill just north of the town. Following Ochiltree's death in 1629, Roughan Castle and estate passed in succession to Robert Stewart of Irry , a cousin related through both his mother and his (first) wife to
84-418: A heritage railroad Stewartstown Engine House, Stewartstown Railroad , a historic railroad engine house Stewartstown station (Pennsylvania) , a historic railroad station Stewartstown, West Virginia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Stewartstown . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
112-716: A loyal servant of Parliament . He was exonerated from having played any part in support of the Rebellion , and therefore retained both his land and his life. Following the Rebellion , Colonel Stewart was appointed Governor of the Castles of Antrim and Toome . He defended both forts until the final settlement of Ireland under Oliver Cromwell in 1649, when he was forced to capitulate on honourable terms to General Robert Venables . He died at Roughan Castle , which he had inherited from his elder brothers. Robert Stewart left no children by his first marriage. His second wife, Jane,
140-579: A thatched chapel built on the site of an old quarry). Two miles distant there was "an extensive and improved demesne, with a fine park, is Stewart Hall, the seat of Earl Castle-Stewart , who derives his titles of Baron and Earl from this place". In 1910, the Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory recorded a market town whose 699 inhabitants had their own railway station [closed in 1956] and post office, and six places of worship (3 Church of Ireland , 1 Presbyterian , 1 Wesleyan , and 1 Roman Catholic ). Before
168-543: Is a village in Northern Ireland , close to the western shore of Lough Neagh , about 5 miles (8 km) from Cookstown , 3 miles (5 km) from Coalisland and 7 miles (11 km) from Dungannon . Established by Scottish Planters early in the 17th century, its population peaked before the Great Famine of the 1840s at over 1000. In the 2011 Census the town had a population of 650 people. Formerly in
196-599: Is commemorated today by "Kerry House" in North Street and by a headstone erected for "Sergeant Mahoney and privates of the Kerry Militia" in the Roman Catholic graveyard. In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Stewartstown as "a highly respectable and flourishing little market-town": The town consists of a spacious square and three principal streets, well-arranged, and
224-737: The Irish Volunteer supported ( Masonic ) Yankee Club of Stewartstown voted an address to George Washington composed by the Presbyterian minister Thomas Ledlie Birch . It expressed their joy that the Americans had succeeded in throwing off "the yoke of slavery" and suggested that their exertions had "shed a benign light on the distressed Kingdom of Ireland ". Washington returned his thanks. While patriotic sentiment in favour reform surged again following news of revolution in France ,
252-649: The Provisional Irish Republican Army killed two British soldiers with booby trap bomb at an electricity sub-station; and in 1990 Loyalists shot and killed a local man, a Catholic, as he worked on a car in his garage on North Street. After the 1998 Good Friday peace accords , in July 2000 dissident republicans exploded a car bomb outside the police station in Stewartstown. No one was injured. The station closed in 2008. The village
280-579: The Edwards family of Castlegore, County Tyrone. His first marriage to Catherine O'Neill, granddaughter of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone , directly allied him to the Catholic leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 . Stewart was duly appointed an officer in the rebel forces by his wife's cousin, the leader of the rebellion, Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard . It appears that he switched alliances during
308-512: The Hon. Robert Stewart of Irry is always described as the third and youngest son of Andrew Stewart, 3rd Lord Ochiltree and afterwards the 1st Baron Castle Stewart by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Kennedy of Blairquhan Castle , Ayrshire . According to R.G.S. King, the Colonel's father was first cousin of 1st Baron Castle Stewart . King puts forward plausible evidence that Colonel Stewart
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#1732779983463336-901: The Irish O'Neills . During the 1641 Rising he was appointed to a rebel command under Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard but in the unfolding War of the Three Kingdoms switched alliances taking a commission from Charles II . As had the great Hugh O'Neill after the Nine Years War (en route in 1607 in what became known as the Flight of the Earls ), at the end of the Cromwellian reconquest of Ireland in 1653 Felim O’Neill took shelter on an old crannog in Lough Roughan. There he
364-762: The Irish regiments, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Rifles . After the war, the area saw action by the Irish Republican Army . In 1922 they burned Roxborough Castle in Moy, County Tyrone , the seat of the Earls of Charlemont James Edward Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont , the former Viceroy of a now partitioned Ireland , then used Drumcairne House outside Stewartstown for his occasional visits to
392-525: The Rebellion. he relieved the Fort of Dungannon , and that of Mountjoy Castle , when at point of surrender to the rebels. Attacking the besiegers with a very inferior force, he dispersed them and drove them back into the mountains of Altadesert and Slieugallen. His early activities against the victorious English miraculously managed to escape their notice until twelve years later, by which time he had become
420-486: The castle and the ground floor of each of the towers have several gun loops. Stewartstown has a surgery which serves nearby areas; such as Ardboe , Coalisland , Brockagh , Clonoe and Newmills . On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Stewartstown Settlement was 650, accounting for 0.04% of the NI total. Of these: Robert Stewart, of Irry In the many histories written on his family, Colonel
448-551: The county. A fine late Georgian structure overlooking Coney Island in Lough Neagh , its comparative modesty illustrated the declining presence and importance of the once Ascendant landed families Over the thirty years from the late 1960s of The Troubles in Northern Ireland at least four people were killed in or near Stewartstown: in 1972 Loyalists bombed the Imperial Bar killing a local Catholic woman; in 1974
476-450: The estates to her husband, Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk ) of Andrew's first cousin, the 3rd Baron Castlestewart, Andrew did not think it fit to claim the title. The title remained dormant until Andrew's grandson, Andrew Thomas Stewart (1725–1809), successfully petitioned George III and restored the family title in 1774, becoming the 9th Baron Castle Stewart . Though the 9th Baron was unsuccessful in his attempt to establish his claim to
504-614: The historic County Tyrone , today it is in local-government district of Mid Ulster . Stewartstown derives its name from Andrew Steuart (or Stewart), Lord Ochiltree , from Ayrshire in Scotland to whom in the Ulster Plantation James I of England (VI of Scotland) granted the surrounding district. In 1608, with a party of just 33 retainers from Scotland, Ochiltree erected a strong bawn of limestone overlooking Lough Roughan (converted by his son Andrew Steuart into
532-481: The houses well-built of stone and roofed with slate - many of the habitations are large and handsome, several of modern erection, and the whole place has an appearance of cheerfulness and prosperity. The market-house, a handsome building, stands in the centre of the town. Petty sessions are held on alternate Tuesdays, and a court monthly for the manor of Castle-Stewart, in which debts to the amount of 40s. are recoverable. The town at one time carried on an extensive trade in
560-434: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewartstown&oldid=1123488595 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Stewartstown, County Tyrone Stewartstown
588-422: The manufacture of linen and union cloth, and there is still business done of some consideration in this branch; and likewise in lime, quarried in the neighbourhood. The town derives a good inland business for the supply of the neighbourhood, and additional advantages from its situation as a place of thoroughfare. A new Catholic Church, St Mary's, had just been completed in the then largely Protestant town (replacing
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#1732779983463616-549: The only action associated with the United Irish insurrection of 1798 witnessed in Stewartstown occurred the previous July. Largely Anglican and Orange Order local yeomanry (joined in the heat of the battle by English and Scottish Fencibles ), attacked members of the Kerry Militia, Catholic conscripts whom the government had sought to billet in the village. Several fell on either side. The Kerrymen's final stand
644-522: The onset in the 1840s of the Great Famine and the accelerated emigration that followed, the town had a recorded population (1841) of 1,082. The land about Stewartstown was fertile and crop yields were high. Full use was made of local limestone, burnt and fed to the land with peat rubble and farmyard dung. But even with the Ulster [tenant-right] Custom , little interest was secured in the land by those who worked it. St Patrick's Church records reveal that it
672-511: Was administered by Tyrone County Council from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973. It has been within the district of Mid-Ulster since 2011. Outside the town are the remains of Roughan Castle. It is a small square structure, 3 storeys high encompassing a central tower, flanked by thick rounded towers at each corner which convert to square rooms in the upper floors. An underground passage ran below
700-528: Was betrayed and captured, with many of his followers drowning in the lough waters. On the shores of the same lough, the army of James II encamped on their march to Derry in 1689. Following their defeat, in 1694 the Anglican ( Church of Ireland ) parish church, St Patrick, was built out of the forfeited impropriations by order of William III . In 1784, during the American War of Independence ,
728-473: Was in fact the son of William Stewart of Fiugh and Mary O'Neill (d.1615), daughter of Sir Cormac O'Neill, son of Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone . He states that William of Fiugh was the son of Robert (uncle of the 1st Baron Castle Stewart/3rd Lord Ochiltree ) who was the fifth son of Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree . His evidence is based on a pedigree drawn up by James Stewart for his father George Roe Stewart of Termon and Canon John Grainger's pedigree of
756-459: Was only after tenant purchase under the Land Acts at the end of the 19th century, that there is inter-generational continuity in the occupation of farms. They also note the departure of the people living in the big houses for Dublin and London because they were no longer drawing local rent. The World War I Cenotaph in the village Square lists 28 district dead, the majority having served with
784-404: Was the daughter of James Richardson of Castle Hill, High Sheriff of Tyrone . Robert and Jane Stewart were the parents of four children. At the age of twelve, their eldest son, Andrew, became the rightful heir to the family title, Baron Castle Stewart , passed down from Andrew's uncle. In consequence of the principal family estate, Castle Stewart, having been taken away by the daughter (who conveyed
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