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Baronscourt is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6922°, -7.4389°.

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Baronscourt

Baronscourt in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Baronscourt is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Baronscourt, Barons-Court or Baronscourt Castle is a Georgian country house and estate 4.5 km southwest of Newtownstewart in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and is the seat of the Duke of Abercorn. It is a Grade A-listed building. Baronscourt is the caput or chief residence in Ireland of the Dukes of Abercorn. It was called Baronscourt because, in the Peerage of Ireland, the Abercorns are the Barons Hamilton of Strabane. The house is surrounded by the Baronscourt Estate.

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History

Baronscourt and its surrounding demesne are located on lands that originally belonged to a senior-ranking branch of the Ó Néill (English: O'Neill) clan, a powerful and wealthy Gaelic royal family that ruled Tír Eoghain (Tyrone), a túath or Gaelic kingdom in Ulster. The senior-ranking line of the Ó Néill clan of Tír Eoghain were the leading family within the wider Cenél nEógain dynastic group. The particular branch of the Ó Néill dynasty that dominated the north-western swathe of Tír Eoghain had several 'castles' or towerhouses, including one that was located on Island McHugh, a crannóg situated in what is now known as Lough Catherine, a short distance to the north of the current…

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