Monday 14 December 2009

Canon Can!

Stop Press: My Canon camera has literally just arrived twenty minutes ago! Well anticipated, Amazon and Royal Mail.

8 comments :

Anonymous said...

Tim, some of your readers may be interested to know that Finnebrogue House near Downpatrick is on the market, for £1.5m. As you will know, this was for many years the seat of the Perceval-Maxwell family, relatives of the Lords de Ros. See - http://www.propertynews.com/brochure.php?r=1&c=1&s=81498109&i=0&p=PNC481291&fp=1&sort=h2l
Mourne Park, home of the Earls Kilmorey appears to remain on the market for £10m at http://www.mournepark.co.uk/ (although it has been removed from the Knight Frank website - I don't know if that means it has been sold). Personally, I'd rather live at Finnebrogue - much more manageable and convenient!

Timothy Belmont said...

Many thanks for the info., Anon.

Peregrine's Bird Blog said...

Finnebrogue is under offer by a guy called Noel Lamb who lives in the Courtyard at Templepatrick. I dont think it was the seat of the Perceval Maxwells as such. As it used to be owned by the Lindsay family before them. I used to go to parties at Finnebrogue in my teens!!

Anonymous said...

Are you sure, Peregrine? The P-Ms were certainly there in the first half of the C20th.

Peregrine's Bird Blog said...

Anon You are right I am thinking of the family (Gun-Cunningham's)that sold it to the Belfast Architect circa 10 years ago and previous to them it was Lindsay's and prior to them P-M's

Anonymous said...

Are there any G-Cs still about NI?

Sandy said...

Just for the record the Lindsays never owned the house or it's grounds, but the farmland. The PMs sold it to the Gun-Cunningham family and subsequently through various hands. Denis Lynn now farms the lands, producing the excellent Finnebrogue venison. I intend to buy a cut for a dinner party soon!
Highly recommended.

Timothy Belmont said...

Here's the entry from Raymond's co Down website for 1876:


Robert P. Maxwell, address Finnebrogue, Downpatrick, and Groomsport House, Belfast, owned 8,347 acres.

It was a big estate in its time.