Dormancy of The Barons of Castle Stewart (1686)
The 6th Baron Castle Stewart was the father of Andrew Stewart (1672-1715), who during the wars of the Revolution was taken to Scotland. At the age of twelve, he became the rightful heir to the title 7th Baron Castle Stewart, but on returning to Ireland in adulthood he did not think it fit to claim the title as the land that had once gone with it was no longer his, having been given as a dowry to the previously mentioned Earl of Suffolk. Instead, the de jure 7th Baron made his home at Irry, which he renamed Stuart Hall, near Stewartstown, County Tyrone. His son, Robert Stewart (1700-1742) of Stuart Hall, for the same reasons as his father, chose not to become the 8th Baron Castle Stewart.
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