| Collection Description | George Murray of Broughton, in South West Scotland was one of a group of Scotsmen who
received much of the land in the South west of the county. By 1618, however, these were
forfeit,
and the Baronies of Banagh and Boylagh were granted to a relation of his, John Murray
from
Cockpool, created Earl of Annandale in 1624. The Murrays of Broughton got the land back
in the
1660s, after a long running and complex legal dispute. The Murrays of Broughton or Murray
Stewart Estate, between Donegal, Ardara and Killybegs covered large parts of the parishes
of
Killaghtee, Killymard,
Killybegs, Kilcar and Inishkeel, and totalled about 65,000 statute acres. The Murray
Broughtons
owned the land around
Killybegs/Kilcar in south Donegal from the plantation era (1609 -). Horatio Granville Murray
Stewart who took over the
estates apparently did not do this until 1845 when Alexander Murray who was childless and
the
last of the Murrays of
Broughton died. According to an article in the Donegal Annual journal, Granville Stewart was
in
1845 'a boy of nine who
was not even a descendant of the Murrays of Brougton.....the great-grandnephew of
Alexander
Murray's mother.' [From
Donegal County Archives website] |
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