Mulock Family, Bellair

• Homan-Mulock

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.

Bellair, King's County
Ballyard, King's County
Moate, Westmeath

Bewley, Edmund Thomas (Sir). ‘The Family of Mulock’, Printed for the Author by Ponsonby & Gibbs, at the University Press, Dublin (1905)

Robert Mullock Morgans and Robert B.D.M Hughes Mullock FRAS, 'The Mullock & Mulock Families of Great Britatin & Ireland' on website http://www.bomford.net/IrishBomfords/Chapters/Chapter15/mulock_tree.htm

Larkin, Eamon. ‘The Mulock family of Bellair/Baile Ard, Ballycumber, County Offaly’, Offaly History Blog. 22 November, 2022. https://offalyhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/the-mulock-family-of-bellair-baile-ard-ballycumber-county-offaly-by-eamonn-larkin/