Landed Estates
University of Galway

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