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Delap (Raphoe South)
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The Delap family of Ramelton and Monellan, near Raphoe, county Donegal, settled in that county at the end of the 17th century. Originally the surname was Dunlop. The Monellan property came into the possession of the family through the marriage circa 1776 of Robert Delap and Mary Ann, only child of James Bogle of Monellan. From their first son Samuel Francis descend the Delaps of Raphoe. Reverend Robert Delap was the owner of over 5000 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s he was among the principal lessors in the parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South. Robert and Mary Ann's third son William Drummond Delap of Monasterboyce, county Louth, married as his first wife, Catherine daughter of the Right Reverend William Foster, Bishop of Clogher, by whom he had a son Robert Foster Dunlop who married in 1836 the Honourable Anne Elizabeth, sister of John Viscount Massereene and Ferrand. William Drummond Delap married as his second wife Mary, daughter [and co heiress] of Henry Gore Sankey of Fort Frederic, county Cavan. In 1861, William D. Delap changed his name back to the original Dunlop by royal license. In the 1850s Mrs D[rummond] Delap held an estate in the county Cavan parish of Killinkere and in 1876 the Honourable Mrs Anne E. Foster Dunlop owned 2,051 acres in county Cavan and 1,214 acres in county Louth.
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