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Rockingham House again burned down in a fire started by an electrical fault in 1957. What remained of the estate was sold by Sir Cecil Stafford-King-Harman, to the Irish Land Commission in May 1959. [12] The Land Commission officially took control of the estate in November 1959. [13] The remains of the house were finally demolished in 1971. [14]
Photo by 4h4.photograhy Rockingham House, County Roscommon. Lough Key Forest Park is an 800-hectare park on the southern shore of Lough Key, 40 km south east of Sligo town and 3 km east of Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland. Formerly part of the Rockingham Estate laid out by the King family, it is open to the public.
The park, opened in 1972, [7] covers 865 acres (350 ha) formerly part of the Rockingham estate. The Moylurg Tower , a viewing tower built in 1973, stands on the site of the old Rockingham house overlooking the lake to the north and lawns to the south. [ 8 ]
The park covers 800 acres (3.2 km 2), and was formerly part of the Rockingham estate. This was the seat of the Stafford-King-Harman [ 14 ] family who at the end of the nineteenth century held over 30,000 acres (120 km 2 ) in north County Roscommon and County Sligo .
The Rockingham estate was inherited by Edward Robert King-Harman, an MP and, earlier in his life, adventurer. His daughter, Frances, married Rt Hon Sir Thomas Stafford, 1st Baronet, a physician and member of the Irish Privy Council. Their granddaughter, Joan, Lady Dunn is the representative of the Rockingham branch of the family.
The family estate was the Rockingham Estate in the north of County Roscommon. The house was gutted by fire in September 1957 while Stafford-King-Harman was at Doncaster Racecourse . [ 11 ] Lacking the funds to rebuild the house, he sold the remaining estate of 2,400 acres (970 ha) at auction in 1959. [ 12 ]
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His father was the younger son of Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton and inherited from him the estates of Rockingham, County Roscommon, and Newcastle, Ballymahon, County Longford. King-Harman was educated at Eton and became a lieutenant in the 60th Rifles and captain in the Longford Militia.