 Castlebellingham was the ancestral home of the eponymous Bellingham baronets until the late 1950s.The last Bellingham to live there was Brigadier General Sir Edward Bellingham, born in 1879, who was the last Lord Lieutenant of Louth in 1921, and Guardian of the Rolls (Custos Rotulorum).He was then elected to the Irish free State Senate in 1925-36.