Springhill

"None of the many fine houses scattered throughout the Ulster countryside presents such a sense of history as Springhill, near Moneymore, Country Londonderry. It has been home to ten generations of the Lenox-Conyngham family for more than three hundred years. This re-issued publication traces the development and indeed the survival of the family through four turbulent centuries. Their absorbing story richly documented from the family's own private papers. The account is narrated by the last mistress of the house, Mina, whose colourful personality provides us not only with a history of Springhill but also with an entertaining and enlightening glimpse of the country gentry class and their loyalties in yet another period of turmoil, early twentieth-century Ulster." "Long-awaited, the republication of the history of one of Ulster's most enchanting houses will provide a valuable and necessary companion to those interested in the history of Mid-Ulster, the Plantation and Ulster-Scottish families. Mina's original text has been enhanced by the addition of a range of photographs and original illustrations of places and people referred to in the story of this archetypal Ulster landowning family."--BOOK JACKET.