By the time Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence, Doughoregan Manor had already been in his family for three generations. In the 200 years since then, there has always been a Carroll living in the huge Howard County estate with the obscure Gaelic name.
So for those who knew, the name Doughoregan (pronounced DOE-reegan) and the names of the Carrolls were inextricably intertwined. That made it all the more galling to the family when two real estate speculators bought up 285 acres of nearby land, divided it into five-acre lots, and christened the embryonic development “Doughoregan Manor West.”
