The Persistence of Memory

As for how the New English viewed acts of sabotage such as the burning of Ballydugan House by the hostile locals is captured in the excerpt below, taken from Stuart Blakely’s blog about Ballydugan House. Treason and treachery are the recurring themes, the view of the establishment being very simply that once the lands in question had been formally absorbed by the Crown, resistance was more or less by definition treasonable. For the colonized natives however, such acts were simply part of what they saw as legitimate resistance to foreign invading forces. 

Like Ballydugan Mill, the house has been restored and now provides hotel accommodation

In a strange echo of these events, on 10th February 1973, two members of the Provisional IRA entered the grounds of Castle Ward, one a girl of just seventeen years of age. Both were killed when their bombs went off prematurely, so it is difficult to know what or who exactly they were targeting. It may be presumed however that the attack was conceived with more than a passing nod to its likely symbolic significance. Not much had apparently changed over the centuries. In the views of some, the heritage of families like the Wards, Wests and Cromwells was just what it had always been - the visible and ill-gotten gains of the invading English. 

We may safely presume therefore that whatever members of the Hadzor family were in the County Down area in the seventeenth century, they would not have been partaking of afternoon tea and cakes with their West neighbours.