Historic houses · Northern Ireland
Blessingbourne House
Blessingbourne House in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Blessingbourne House 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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From the Wikipedia article
Blessingbourne House is a large Elizabethan style manor-house located in parkland near Fivemiletown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, stands as a notable historical and architectural site. Designed by Frederick Pepys Cockerell, the current structure was constructed between 1870 and 1874. The house was built in an Elizabethan style of grey stone, overlooking Lough Fadda and is surrounded by landscaped gardens with yew trees, a gravel terrace, and a rhododendron walk. Woodland trails lead round the lake. The entire estate now spans approximately 550-acre (2.2 km2)s, the property functions as a working farm. In recent years, the coach house has been made available for private functions and the outbuildings converted to holiday apartments. An 8 km mountain bike trail has been newly laid out.
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Background
History
The Blessingbourne Estate became part of the Montgomery family through marriage to the Armar family in the early 18th century. However, the first Montgomery to reside on the estate was Hugh Montgomery, famously known as "Colonel Eclipse", who was born in 1779. Initially, he vowed to never marry and built himself a romantic thatched cottage on the estate as a retreat for his bachelor life. Eventually, he married and had a son, Hugh Ralph Severin Montgomery. Upon inheriting the property in 1838, Hugh Ralph Severin Montgomery constructed a Tudor style gate lodge c. around 1845. The current larger house was built by Hugh Ralph Severin Montgomery's only son, Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery.…
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- Coordinates
- 54.3850, -7.3100
- Address
- Blessingbourne Estate, Murley Rd, Fivemiletown BT75 0QS, United Kingdom
- Official site
- www.blessingbourne.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q4926340 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Blessingbourne House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Blessingbourne House?
- Blessingbourne House is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3850°, -7.3100°.
- Who owns Blessingbourne House?
- Blessingbourne House is owned by Colleen and Nicholas Lowry.