A Family Rooted in the Land
Mount Briscoe passed down through the generations and after the death of Louis Edgill in April 1950, the task of running the Mount Briscoe farm went to his youngest son, W. H. (Henry) Edgill born in 1936. The Edgill’s were noted to be assiduous farmers and successful breeders of horses and pedigree bulls.
Henry married Elizabeth Payne from Ballymoe, County Galway in 1962, they had two children William and Margaret. The farm is composed of 16ha of mixed forestry and 30ha of grassland. Henry & Betty ran a beef suckler herd and produced Hereford weanlings off a grass-fed system. Henry retired from active farming in 2012/’13. They were early adopters to organic farming and were certified in 1998.
