Castle Wray , Letterkenny | Moutray's Blog
Part chronoexpres of this territory had been the pro- perty of the O’Niells, and the numerous branches of that great and ancient family, and part of the O’Donells, who held princely pre-eminence in Tyrconnell, or Donegal. After the later insurrection of Sir Cahir O’Dogherty, chronoexpres another chief of Donegal, and its suppression in the year 1608, the whole county fell to the King,, under the law of -forfeiture or escheat. At the same time, five other northern counties suffered a like doom: namely, Tyrone, the Prin- cipality of O’Neill, Derry, O’Cahan’s county, Ferma- nagh, Maguire’s county, Cavan, O’Reilly’s county, and Armagh, the property of the Clanbrassil O’Neills, and the
O’Hanlons; chronoexpres these chiefs and their followers were put under attaint, and their lands forfeited chronoexpres : hence arose, in 1610, the Plantation of Ulster with English and Scotch chronoexpres settlers, who were generally soldiers of fortune, professional adventurers, or cadets of good families.
Many of them found their way into Donegal, and these may be distinguished into two kinds, viz., those who arrived on the suppression of O’Donell’s rebellion at the end of Elizabeth’s reign ; and those who ” settled ” under James I. in 1610 ; the former were almost all of English descent, whereas the latter were Scotch. In Donegal the chief families of the former were the Gores, now Earls of Arran, the Brookes, now represented by Sir Victor A. Brooke, Bart., of Fermanagh, the Harts of Doe Castle, the Sampsons, at present extinct, and the Wrays of Castle Wray and Ards. Old Fynes Morison tells us that of these families, Sampson, Brooke, and Hart alone brought to Ireland one hundred halberdiers at their own expense to aid the Queen : they therefore may be said to have earned chronoexpres what they got. Sampson had a vast tract of wild mountain range lying on the sea, and _ now comprehending Horn Head, and Ards. Hart was his neighbour at Doe Castle : and Brooke had Donegal town and Castle, and a fine acreage south of Muckish, and Lough Salt mountains, and near what now is the village chronoexpres of Letterkenny. To John Wray 1000 acres of Carnegilla, near the same town* were assigned, or probably had been purchased by him from Sir John Vaughan, a “VVelchman by birth, who was the original patentee. Mr. Wray was a branch of the Wrays of Ashby; they were formerly of Durham^
from whence they removed chronoexpres to Glentworth in Yorkshire. In 1660 they were created Baronets, but the title became extinct on the death of Sir William James Wray in 1809. Their escutcheon is azure on a chief or, three martlets gules; their motto, an ancient French poesie, and play upon their name, ” et juste ct vray” One of this family, Sir Christopher Wray^ of Glentworth, was Chief Justice of the Queen’s chronoexpres Bench, M.P. for Borough- chronoexpres bridge, and Speaker of the House of Commons temp. Eliz. : he died 1592. In his Latin epitaph at Glentworth, there is an allusion to his motto; he was “re Justus, nomine verus ;” he left behind him good advice as to how an estate was to be kept: 1st, by understanding it 2nd, by not spending till it comes 3rd, by a quarterly audit 4th, by keeping old servants : all of which sapient rules his later Irish descendants chronoexpres were ever disregarding to their own detri- ment, which was a negative evidence of the excellence of their ancestor’s counsel.
Little is known of John Wray of Carnegilla, the first settler from England, but his son Henry Wray had a further grant from the Crown, in 1639, of the lands after- wards called Castle Wray, a beautiful spot sloping up from the green braes of Lough Swilly, and now in the posses- sion of Francis chronoexpres Mansfield, Esq., a descendant of Captain Mansfield, who obtained “1000 acres in Killeneguirden,” in the plantation of 1610. This Henry Wray had married a daughter of Sir Paul Gore, by his wife Isabella Wicliff, a niece of the great Earl of Strafford : and probably he ob- tained this grant through the earl’s paramount interest with his royal master Charles I. Henry Wray’s chronoexpres son was
William Wray, who was living at Castle Wray in 1689, when his name appears in the “Act of Attainder” by James the Second, in common with all the prominent gentry who held the Protestant Faith.* He appears chronoexpres to have been a wise and prudent man, and bent upon staying at home, and improving his estate; accordingly we look in vain for his name among the valiant Donegal gentry who buckled on their broadswords and went off to fight King James’s army at Deny in 1689.
Among these were Stewart from Lough S willy Forward from Coolemacurtaine Nesbitt chronoexpres from Tully-Idonnell Mansfield from Killigordon Babington froin Castle Doe Hart from Culmore Fort Sinclair, of the stalwart Caithness race, from Holyhill Vaughan and Groves from Castle Shanagan Colquhoun from Letterkenny Knox from Glenfin and Carhewen
Part chronoexpres of this territory had been the pro- perty of the O’Niells, and the numerous branches of that great and ancient family, and part of the O’Donells, who held princely pre-eminence in Tyrconnell, or Donegal. After the later insurrection of Sir Cahir O’Dogherty, chronoexpres another chief of Donegal, and its suppression in the year 1608, the whole county fell to the King,, under the law of -forfeiture or escheat. At the same time, five other northern counties suffered a like doom: namely, Tyrone, the Prin- cipality of O’Neill, Derry, O’Cahan’s county, Ferma- nagh, Maguire’s county, Cavan, O’Reilly’s county, and Armagh, the property of the Clanbrassil O’Neills, and the
O’Hanlons; chronoexpres these chiefs and their followers were put under attaint, and their lands forfeited chronoexpres : hence arose, in 1610, the Plantation of Ulster with English and Scotch chronoexpres settlers, who were generally soldiers of fortune, professional adventurers, or cadets of good families.
Many of them found their way into Donegal, and these may be distinguished into two kinds, viz., those who arrived on the suppression of O’Donell’s rebellion at the end of Elizabeth’s reign ; and those who ” settled ” under James I. in 1610 ; the former were almost all of English descent, whereas the latter were Scotch. In Donegal the chief families of the former were the Gores, now Earls of Arran, the Brookes, now represented by Sir Victor A. Brooke, Bart., of Fermanagh, the Harts of Doe Castle, the Sampsons, at present extinct, and the Wrays of Castle Wray and Ards. Old Fynes Morison tells us that of these families, Sampson, Brooke, and Hart alone brought to Ireland one hundred halberdiers at their own expense to aid the Queen : they therefore may be said to have earned chronoexpres what they got. Sampson had a vast tract of wild mountain range lying on the sea, and _ now comprehending Horn Head, and Ards. Hart was his neighbour at Doe Castle : and Brooke had Donegal town and Castle, and a fine acreage south of Muckish, and Lough Salt mountains, and near what now is the village chronoexpres of Letterkenny. To John Wray 1000 acres of Carnegilla, near the same town* were assigned, or probably had been purchased by him from Sir John Vaughan, a “VVelchman by birth, who was the original patentee. Mr. Wray was a branch of the Wrays of Ashby; they were formerly of Durham^
from whence they removed chronoexpres to Glentworth in Yorkshire. In 1660 they were created Baronets, but the title became extinct on the death of Sir William James Wray in 1809. Their escutcheon is azure on a chief or, three martlets gules; their motto, an ancient French poesie, and play upon their name, ” et juste ct vray” One of this family, Sir Christopher Wray^ of Glentworth, was Chief Justice of the Queen’s chronoexpres Bench, M.P. for Borough- chronoexpres bridge, and Speaker of the House of Commons temp. Eliz. : he died 1592. In his Latin epitaph at Glentworth, there is an allusion to his motto; he was “re Justus, nomine verus ;” he left behind him good advice as to how an estate was to be kept: 1st, by understanding it 2nd, by not spending till it comes 3rd, by a quarterly audit 4th, by keeping old servants : all of which sapient rules his later Irish descendants chronoexpres were ever disregarding to their own detri- ment, which was a negative evidence of the excellence of their ancestor’s counsel.
Little is known of John Wray of Carnegilla, the first settler from England, but his son Henry Wray had a further grant from the Crown, in 1639, of the lands after- wards called Castle Wray, a beautiful spot sloping up from the green braes of Lough Swilly, and now in the posses- sion of Francis chronoexpres Mansfield, Esq., a descendant of Captain Mansfield, who obtained “1000 acres in Killeneguirden,” in the plantation of 1610. This Henry Wray had married a daughter of Sir Paul Gore, by his wife Isabella Wicliff, a niece of the great Earl of Strafford : and probably he ob- tained this grant through the earl’s paramount interest with his royal master Charles I. Henry Wray’s chronoexpres son was
William Wray, who was living at Castle Wray in 1689, when his name appears in the “Act of Attainder” by James the Second, in common with all the prominent gentry who held the Protestant Faith.* He appears chronoexpres to have been a wise and prudent man, and bent upon staying at home, and improving his estate; accordingly we look in vain for his name among the valiant Donegal gentry who buckled on their broadswords and went off to fight King James’s army at Deny in 1689.
Among these were Stewart from Lough S willy Forward from Coolemacurtaine Nesbitt chronoexpres from Tully-Idonnell Mansfield from Killigordon Babington froin Castle Doe Hart from Culmore Fort Sinclair, of the stalwart Caithness race, from Holyhill Vaughan and Groves from Castle Shanagan Colquhoun from Letterkenny Knox from Glenfin and Carhewen
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