Rector of Tullabeg: 16 August 1895-23 November 1900; 28 August 1905-21 August1908
Reverend John Mulock D.D., was born in 1729. He was awarded a B.A. by Trinity College, Dublin in 1749. He succeeded to the Ballyard, or Bellair, estates in 1757 upon the death of his uncle, John Mulock [Mullock]. He married firstly, Emily Frances, daughter of Hurd Wetherall of Castle Wetherall, King’s County, with whom he had four children; Hurd Augustus, John, Sarah, and Frances Emilia. After Emily’s death, Rev John Mulock married Anne Homan on 18 February 1764, with whom he had three children; Thomas Homan Mulock, Mary, and Elizabeth. Anne Homan was the daughter of Richard Homan of Surock, County Westmeath, through whom Rev John Mulock acquired some of the Homan estates. He is credited with improving large tracts of land and with planting the trees on Bellair Hill. He also sponsored a dispensary and a school in Bellair, to cater for the children of the families who were engaged in the flax growing and linen weaving industry.
Rev John Mulock made his will dated 17 November 1899, making certain bequests to his grandchildren (children of his son, John Mulock) and devised the residue of his estates to his son, Thomas Homan Mulock. He died in 1803.
The branch of the Mulock family that lived in Bellair originated near Ballynakill, Meelick [Miloc] in East Galway. The Mulock family were Irish landowners, originating in the North of Ireland. Thomas Mulock [Mullock] from Ballynakill, Galway married Margaret Conran. Their eldest son, John Mulock [Mullock], acquired freehold interests of considerable extent and value in the lands of Ballyard (afterwards called Bellair), Kilnagarna, Castlerea and others, in the King’s County. John Mulock died without issue, and by his will of 1755, the Ballyard estate was devised to his nephew, the Rev. John Mulock and his heirs. Through his marriage to Anne Homan, The Rev. John Mulock acquired lands in Surrock, Westmeath. The Rev. John Mulock is credited with improving large tracts of land and with planting the trees on Bellair Hill. He also sponsored a dispensary and a school in Bellair to cater for the children of the families who were engaged in the flax growing and linen weaving industry. Rev. John Mulock died in 1803 after leaving his estates to his son Thomas Homan Mulock, who later left the estate to his nephew, Thomas Homan Mulock Molloy in 1843. After his death in 1889, his son, William Bury Homan Mulock, inherited the estate. In his will, William Bury Homan Mulock bequeathed Bellair House and the remainder of the estate to his niece, Lady Nina Hester, but she refused it and gave it to her niece Sheila Claude Beddington Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt.
Superior of Tullabeg: 31 July 1977-15 August 1983