English: Freame Mount, Cootehill, and its early history. Here is Freame Mount and its farm buildings on a hilltop as seen from near the Cootehill-Newbliss road. The house, which was built in 1772 by Charles Mayne (1727-77), has a magnificent view across the Dartrey estate, owned by his cousin and benefactor, Thomas Dawson (1st Baron Dartrey) 897437. It was after Thomas' new wife, Philadelphia Hannah Freame (a Quaker and the granddaughter of William Penn of Pennsylvania) that Charles named his new house - Dawson portraits: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2_ZstVBZSfIC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q=&f=true . It was built on land known as Dyon (amounting to "90 acres excluding bog" in 1788).

Charles was a descendant of the Maynes of Mount Sedborough 895925. He had married his cousin Dorothea Mayne by whom he had seven children - their two older son's fathered 27 children! While William, the younger of the two, took on Freame Mount, the elder son, Edward Mayne (1756-1829), became a lawyer and eventually a Judge of the Irish King's Bench 943640. His example resulted in the Mayne name figuring heavily in lists of Dublin lawyers well into the second half of the 19th century. Among them was Sir Richard Mayne who became the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on its formation in 1829 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2_ZstVBZSfIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q=&f=true

Charles Mayne, together with four of his brothers who also settled around Cootehill, started something of a family dynasty which in time spread abroad to England, India and Australia. The Mayne family have a vault at 900932. They finally left Freame Mount in the 1850s - the last tenant being the land agent Richard Mayne of 896950. He was replaced by a William Douglas, an Ulsterman of Scottish descent. His four sons all became doctors and by 1880 the family had left for South Africa.