Learmount Castle

Learmount is a Scottish place name of uncertain etymology rather than an Irish one, yet it was adopted as the estate name in County Derry. The Learmount estate came to the Beresford family in 1774 upon the marriage of Barbara Montgomery (daughter of the 1st Baronet Montgomery, celebrated beauty and muse of Sir Joshua Reynolds) to the Hon. John Beresford (1738–1805), second surviving son of the ...