The Lordship or Manor or Reputed Lordship or Manor or by whatever other name the Lordship of Slanes may be know or called in the Administrative County of Down, Province of Ulster, Northern Ireland was once held either by conquest, gift, forfeiture, redistrobution, confiscation or purchase. The Manor of Slanes dates from the conquest of
Ulster by Henry II (1180); and, has a pseudo- feudal plantation origin.

John Fitz Nicholas of Slanes is the first recorded holder of the Manor. Fitz Nicholas of Slanes entered into rebellion with Edward Bruce (1318) which ended in failure at the Battle of Faughart. For his bad Judgement Fitz Nicholas was forced to forfeit his lands. Three (3) years later, Edward II granted the
Lordship to the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem.

When Henry VIII closed the monastaries (1539),theLordship of Slanes stayed a Crown Possession until seventy-eight (78) years later when James VI & I granted Slanes to Sir Arthur Savage.

William Hmilton of Newcastle purchased the Lordship of Slanes sometime before 1627. The Manor passed into the patrimony of the Hamilton family until the death of James Hamilton of Bangor in (1709).

It then passed into the patrimony of the Ward family with the marriage of Anne Hamilton to Micheal Ward (1709). The Ward family retained The Lordship of Slanes until (2001) when it was sold by William Maxwell David Ward, Viscount Bangor to Ronald C. Bridges of Slanes the
current Lord of Slanes.