Landed Estates
University of Galway

Close (Drumbanagher)


Estate(s)

Name Description
Richardson/Richardson-Brady William Richardson of Drum, county Tyrone married Isabella Brady, co-heiress to the Clonervy estate, near Cavan. Their son, Major William Stewart Richardson of Oaklands, succeeded his father in 1823, and assumed the additional name of Brady on succeeding to his mother's third of the Clonervy estate in 1841. His daughter and sole heiress married in 1866 Viscount Stuart, later 5th Earl Castle Stewart, of Stewart Hall, Stewartstown, county Tyrone. Lord and Lady Castle Stewart had two daughters, but no son. One of their daughters Lady Muriel succeeded to the Richardson Brady estate. Lady Muriel married Archibald Maxwell Close of Drumbanagher, Co. Armagh, in 1891. Earl Annesley bought some of this estate.