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Rockcorry was established as a market town by the Corry family, English planters who received the Rockcorry Estate by royal grant to Walter Corry from King Charles II in 1667. Corry had arrived as part of the Ulster Plantation shortly after 1635 and served as High Sheriff of Monaghan in 1672. He constructed Rockcorry Castle (now vanished) and founded the settlement originally known as Newtownco...