ealeigh

Updated: June 26, 2025

It then belonged to the fifth Duke of Devonshire, who had inherited it from his mother, the only child and heiress of the friend of Pope, Richard, fourth Earl of Cork, and third Earl of Burlington. It had come into the hands of the Boyles by purchase from Sir Walter Ealeigh, to whom Elizabeth had granted it, with all its appendages and appurtenances.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)