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Foster (Dunleer)
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The Foster family were settled at Dunleer, county Louth, from the early 18th century. The Reverend Thomas Foster, rector of Dunleer, was succeeded by his son John Thomas Foster who married in 1776 Lady Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of the Earl of Bristol. Part of the Foster estate was at Cormey in the parish of Enniskeen, county Cavan. Following John T. Foster’s death in 1795 the Cormey property was inherited by his son Augustus, a minor. A cousin, Henry Foster, was his trustee and in 1808 he began to rebuild Cormey Castle, then a ruin. The rebuilding of Cormey Castle bankrupted his ward Augustus and in 1813 Augustus sold the Castle and about 400 acres to his neighbour Colonel Joseph Pratt. The Colonel then made Cormy Castle his main residence and renamed it Cabra Castle. Augustus Foster became a foreign diplomat and in 1831 was created a baronet.
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