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Fruithill, located to the south-east of the present building, and in the 1790s this house was extended. Nothing remains of this
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faith, despite knowing he had signed a codicil to his father's will barring him from inheriting should he become a
Catholic. The will was contested and was found valid, although the codicil applied only to Conolly Robert, not to any of his direct descendants. So, upon the death of Conolly Robert
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to design a new house, but only the gate lodge was built prior to the deaths of McCausland and
Hargrave. In 1836 their son, Marcus McCausland (1787-1862), commissioned Sir Charles Lanyon to build the present house. Marcus and his wife, Marianne (née Tyndall) produced an heir, Conolly Thomas
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