Fortescue (Clermont)
William Henry Fortescue of Clermont Park (Reynoldstown), county Louth was created Viscount Clermont in 1776 and raised to Earl in 1777. He married Frances Cairnes Murray. His mother-in-law Mary Cairnes Murray was heiress to the estate of her maternal grandfather Sir Alexander Cairnes. Lord Clermont and his wife Frances had no children and part of the Clermont estate passed to Lord Rossmore in the early 19th century.
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Estate maps of the Clermont estate, 1791. Ref. 2006: 15; Monaghan County Museum
Modern printed sources
- JOHNSTON, Jack (ed.). ''Monaghan Studies in Local History: Essays by NUI (Maynooth) Students 2005-2006'': Loftus, Theresa. The Clermont Estate Maps 1791. 133-149
- ''Clogher Record'': MALCOMSON, A.P.W. The Earl of Clermont: a forgotten Co Monaghan magnate of the late eighteenth century, 8 (1973), 46-66
- ''Clogher Record'': MALCOMSON, A.P.W. The Earl of Clermont: Revisions and Corrections. VIII, No 3 (1975), 384-386.