A fine though irregular pearl given by Philip of Spain to his hapless spouse, Mary Tudor, is another of the heirlooms of Baron's Court; but the ring and the note left by Mary Stuart to Claud Hamilton, Lord Paisley, mysteriously disappeared during the long minority of the late Duke under the trusteeship of the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, and have since, it is said, come into the possession of the Duke of Hamilton.
Of the three castles given to Lord Claud Hamilton by James I., to enable him to hold this country, one which stood at Strabaue has disappeared, the memory of it surviving only in the name of Castle Street in that town.

The ivy-clad ruins of another adorn a height in this beautiful park.

They are "bosomed high in tufted trees," and overlook one of three most lovely lakes, stretching in a shining chain through the length of the demesne.
Another ruined tower of the time of King John stands on an island in one of these lakes.

When the Ulster settlement was made, these lands with all the countryside were held by the O'Kanes.

With the other Celtic and Catholic inhabitants, they were driven by the masterful invaders into the mountains and bogs.