The McClintock Estate
The Perry-McClintock family came to Seskinore through inheritance: Samuel McClintock succeeded to the Perry family home, known as Perrymount or Seskinore, in the early 19th century. He commissioned a full estate map in 1846 - a large red-bound volume that gave the first detailed delineation of the property. Seskinore House was rebuilt in 1862 to the design of Boyd & Batt of Belfast and Derry, the same architect responsible for much of Victorian Belfast, and emerged as a substantial residence: five public rooms, ten bedrooms, staff quarters, a butler's house. The family were resident, not absentee, which distinguished them from many Irish landowning families of the period. They established the Tyrone Hunt in 1860 - renamed the Seskinore Hunt in 1886 - and Lt. Col. John Knox McClintock donated land for the primary school that opened in 1902 and still bears the family name. The estate survived the upheavals of the early 20th century intact. What ended it was not politics or land reform but two deaths in quick succession: Leila McClintock Joynson-Wreford died of meningitis at 38 in 1937; her husband Tony died of tuberculosis at 44 in 1940. The estate passed to the Northern Ireland forest service in 1941. The house was demolished eleven years later. A Garden of Remembrance, placed deep in the forest, marks where Leila and Tony were buried.