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Hamilton (Coxtown)
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The Hamilton estate held lands in the parish of Inishkeel in the barony of Boylagh at the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s. Lands in Donegal had been granted to the Hamilton family at the time of the Ulster Plantation in the 17th century. Burke states that John Hamilton removed the family seat from Murvagh to Brownhall in 1607. In the 1870s the representatives of Alexander Hamilton, of Coxtown, Ballintra, owned over 2000 acres in County Donegal. At the same time Hussey de Burgh assigns the property at Brown Hall to Chichester Hamilton. In the 1850s, Reverend Edward Hamilton, John Hamilton and James Hamilton were all among the principal proprietors in the parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh.
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