The Burning of Ballydugan House

Part of the Irish History timeline 

in the Downpatrick museum. 

Ballydugan house was subsequently 

rebuilt by the West family, and has 

been subsequently restored.

There is no sense of any identity crisis with New English families like the Wests, no lingering sentimentality about their Catholic past, and no evidence that the liberal unionizing ideals of groups like the United Irishmen would ever have been seen by them as anything but a threat to the English crown, and the march of English civilization to be quickly and ruthlessly dealt with. 

Not indeed, when we consider again the 1641 rebellion, which provides ample evidence of how warmly welcomed the West family were by certain elements of the local Down population, native Irish and certain old Anglo-Norman families (such as the Hadzors) alike.