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- Termon house was built in the early part of the nineteenth century by a Jamaican born man named Ralph Spence Philips.
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Built in 1611 by Archbishop Myler McGarth on lands granted to his son James the previous year, the "prittie castle at Termon Magragh" was bombarded by Cromwellian troops in 1649-50 and the north wall destroyed. The castle, its life ended in just 38 years, was never again occupied!
THE Castle of Termon Magrath, or Termon, as it is more usually called, is situated at the northern extremity of Lough Erne, about half a mile to the west of the pleasant little town of Pettigoe, county of Donegal.
The construction of McGrath Castle commenced in the late 16th century, a project initiated by James McGrath, the then Chief of the Termon and son of Archbishop Miler McGrath. This period marked a significant evolution in military architecture, reflecting the gradual shift from blade-based combat to gunpowder warfare.
Termon House and the Famine Walls. Termon house was built in the early part of the nineteenth century by a Jamaican born man named Ralph Spence Philips. In the spring of 1822 as a result of extremely wet weather all the potatoes in the area rotted in the clamps and a terrible famine ensued.
The archbishop was Miler Magrath, a former Catholic bishop turned Protestant who proved to be one of the most unscruplous of clerics in Irish history. The now-ruined castle, comprising a tower house and bawn, was the most substantial structure to have been built by an Irishman in early 17th-century Ulster.
McGrath Ownership of Lands of Termon Davog. Coarb and erenagh families held title to their termon lands under brehon law, but English common law had a fundamentally different concept of property, founded on the rights of an individual, rather than of a kinship group.
Those of Fermanagh held possessions at Termon McGrath, where they had a castle in the parish of Templecarne. The McGraths were the ancient lay coarbs, or lay wardens of Alt, an ancient ecclesiastical district in the parish of Templecarne, in the barony of Tirhugh, and County of Donegal.
