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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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Sankey (Fort Frederick)
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Edward Sankey, alderman of Dublin and Lord Mayor of the city in 1766 and his wife Mary Medlicott had three sons. In 1776, his second son, Henry Gore Sankey of Fort Frederick, county Cavan, married Barbara, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Sneyd of Bailieborough. According to Burkes they had two sons and three daughters. Both sons died without heirs and in 1823 their eldest daughter Eleanor married Richard Scott of the Willsboro’ family. The Scotts were living at Fort Frederick at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. John, the third son of Edward Sankey, also married a daughter of the Reverend Sneyd and their eldest son was Major Samuel Sankey, who married Mary Anderson of Aughnacloy in 1841. In 1876, their eldest son, Alexander William Jackson Sankey, owned the Fort Frederick estate, comprised of 1,324 acres. He died unmarried in 1903. In 1906, their second son Henry held over 300 acres of untenanted land in the parish of Killinkere.
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