Seskinore House 1934
Seskinore, the seat of Lieut. Colonel John Knox McClintock, J.P., D.L., lies in the parish of Clogherny, near the village of Seskinore and Fintona, six miles south east of Omagh., Co. Tyrone. It stands in a park of 600 acres, and came into the possession of the family about a hundred years ago. The McClintock family are of Scotch origin having settled in Ireland, 1597 from Argyll. Newtown House, Co. Louth was the family place of this branch of McClintocks. The place having been sold the family came to live at Seskinore, which they inherited from the Perry family.
The Perry family is of Welsh origin, and their original patronymic was Perry, a James Perry being granted free farm lands from Sir Audley Mervyn in 1662. His eldest son, Francis, married a daughter of John Lowry, of Pomeroy, from whom descend the Earls of Belmora. The estates fell to the third son, George, who married a daughter of the Rev. James Sinclair, of Holyhill. His grandson, George, dying without issue, the estate passed to his nephew, Samuel, second son of his sister, Mary, who in 1781 married Alexander McClintock, of Newtown, Co., Louth, younger brother of John McClintock, of Drumcar, ancestor of Lord Rathdonnell. Samuel was a Lieutenant in the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, and High Sheriff of Co., Louth, and his eldest son, George Perry McClintock, Colonel who commanded the 4th Royal Enniskilling Fusiliels (Royal Tyrone Fusiliers) was A.D.C. to the Duke of Abercorn and Earl Spencer was Lords Lieutenant, also J.P. and D.I. for Co., Tyrone, and High Sheriff in 1865. He married a daughter of the Rev. Samuel Alexander of Termon Co., Tyrone who's wife was a daughter of the Rev. Charles Cobbe Beresford, Rector of Termon a connection of the Marquess of Waterford, and his second son is the present owner of Seskinore.
Lieut. Colonel McClintock's wife is a descendant of an old Scottish family of Eccles and Blakes, of Castlegrove, Co., Mayo. Settled in Ireland in 1600 from lands in the Barony of Eccles, Dumfrieshire.
The Seskinore Hunt, under that title, dates from 1886. It was previously known as the Tyrone Hunt, and was established in 1860 by the last Colonel George Perry McClintock. J.P, D.L, of Seskinore. He held the Mastership until 1886 when he was succeeded by his son, the present owner of Seskinore, Captain now Lieut. Colonel J. Knox McClintock, who renamed the Hunt and retired in 1905. Mr. King Houston, of Riversdale, Omagh was Master from 1905 to 1908; the present Master is Mr. Lewis Scott of Omagh. These hounds meet twice a week. The country is undulating with bogs in parts which make hunting difficult, but south is as good as any in the North of Ireland.
Extract from Pike's Province of Ulster 1909.