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Town of COOTEHILL

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"COOTEHILL. a market and post-town, in the parish of DRUMGOON, barony of TULLAGHGARVEY, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 12 miles (N. E.) from Cavan, and 57 (N. W. by W.) from Dublin ; containing 2239 inhabitants. This town is situated on the road from Kingscourt to Clones, and consists of four wide streets, containing 438 houses, nearly all of which are slated. It is on the borders of a lake, which is naviga-ble for the greater part of the distance of seven miles between this place and Ballybay, in Monaghan ; and is a considerable market for linen. The webs are principally broad sheetings of superior quality, and the number of pieces sold annually to be bleached is about 40,000. The trade, which had considerably declined, has for the last two or three years been improving. The general market is on Friday, and the corn market on Saturday, in the market-house. Fairs are held on the second Friday in each month for cattle, flax, and yarn. Here is a chief constabulary police station. Petty sessions are held every Wednesday, and quarter sessions at Easter and in October in a very neat sessions-house. The bridewell contains three cells, with separate day-rooms and yards for males and females, and apartments for the keeper. The seats in the neighbourhood are very beautiful, especially Bellamont Forest, the residence of C. Coote, Esq., which derived its name from the title of Earl of Bellamont enjoyed, until the year 1800, by the ancient family of Coote. " [From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

"COOTEHILL, a post and market town in the parish of Drumgoon, barony of Tullygarvey, in the county of Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland, 12 miles to the E.N.E. of Cavan. It is situated on the river Coragh, on the road from Dublin to Clones. It contains a chief police station, sessions-house, bridewell, banks, dispensary, and Union poorhouse. The parish church of Drumgoon stands in the town, as also chapels for Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Moravians, and Quakers. Cootehill Poor-law Union consists of 12 electoral divisions, with 18 guardians, and is extended into Cavan and Monaghan. The linen trade of this town is very considerable. The surrounding district is one of extreme beauty, and there are numerous elegant residences. Bellamont Forest, the seat of R. Coots, Esq., to whom the town belongs, contains some excellent family portraits and other paintings. Friday is market day. Fairs are held on the third Friday in each month." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]

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Cootehill circa 1835
By permission of the Royal Irish Academy

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Cemeteries

  • Cootehill Church, Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, v.6, p.13.
    • Sacred to the memory of the Revd Phillip [sic] R. Brabazon, for eight years curate of this parish Unwearied devotion to his Master's cause, and an earnest solicitude for those over whose souls he loved to watch, gained for him an enduring influence over their hearts and minds and "by it he being dead yet speaketh" - This tablet has been erected by his sorrowing flock, a tribute to his memory, a solace to his grief. He entered into his rest on the 19th day of July 1848 in the 40th year of his age.
    • In this Vault rest the remains of Brampton Phillip [sic] Gurdon Esqr eldest son of the Revd Phillip Gurdon and Sarah his wife of Assington Hall, Suffolk, in England. Cornet in the 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards - His friends who loved him felt his loss on the 22nd day of March 1804.
  • Cootehill Church of Ireland Graveyard
  • Kilsherdany Chapel Cemetery (St. Brigid's Roman Catholic)
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Census

  • Masterson, J. Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Republic of Ireland), Genealogical Publishing Co., MD, 1999, p. 82
    • 1851 Census, Bridge St.
      • Barnard McKERNAN, head, na
      • Mary Ann McKERNAN, wife, na
      • Ellen McKERNAN, dau, 21
      • Mary McKERNAN, dau, 19
      • Ann McKERNAN, dau, 16
      • William McKERNAN, son, 14
      • Jane McKERNAN, dau, 10
      • Bernard McKERNAN, son, 3
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Church History

Crowe, C. Sister, The Sisters of Mercy Kilmore Ireland 1868-1994, Belturbet, Sisters of Mercy, 1994.

O'Brien, H., St. Michael's, Cootehill : A Brief History of the Church, Its Buildings, Its people, Monaghan : Printed by R. & S. Printers, 1993.

  • Day, A. and McWilliams, P. (Editors) Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, v40, Counties of South Ulster, 1834-38, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queens University of Belfast, 1998.
    • Some Church Facts
      • Catholic
        • 1826 Erected
        • 1835 Very Revd Dr. Brown
      • Presbyterian
        • Meeting House
          • 1728 Erected
          • 1835 Revd James Bones
        • Seceding Meeting House
          • 1797 Erected
          • 1835 Revd William Little
      • Protestant
        • 1639 Old Church Erected
        • 1819 New Church Erected
        • 1835 Revds A Douglas & William Tomlinson
      • Methodist
        • 1797 Established
      • Moravian
        • 1752 Founded
        • 1755 Church Erected
        • 1765 Revd John Frederick Landen
        • 1835 Revd John Willey
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Description & Travel

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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Genealogy

Hall, J.A. The John Hall family : From Cootehill, Cavan County, Ireland, Baltimore (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore 21202) : Gateway Press, 1990.

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History

Bradshaw, H. "A Hiring Fair in Cootehill", Heart of Breifne, 1985, pp. 9-16.

O'Brien, H., The Celtics, 1894-1994. A Centenary History of the G.A.A. in Cootehill, Cootehill, Co.Cavan, 1994

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Land & Property

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference H6013714138 (Lat/Lon: 54.072942, -7.082094), Town of COOTEHILL which are provided by:

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Military Records

  • Snodaigh, P.O. Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995
    • Coothill Infantry - 1783, 1784
    • Cottehill, Cootehill Infantry Volunteers
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Nobility

  • Adams Of Drumelton House
    • William ADAMS, of Drumelton House, Cootehill, Co Cavan, JP, High Sheriff 1887; b 18 March, 1837; m 15 Nov 1870, Sarah (d 1929), 3rd dau of the late George CHATTERTON, JP, of Ballynamote House, Co Cork, by Sarah Georgina, his wife, 3rd dau of James HILL, of Craig, Co Cork, and d. 1908.
    • Lineage-William ADAMS, of Erne View, Co Cavan; b 1763 ; m 1st, -, dau of George FORBES; and 2nd, Rosa Ann KYTELE (d 1846); d 1817.
  • Cassidy, P., The Cootes of Cootehill, Breifne, v. 10, No. 37, 2001, p. 344
  • The Coote papers (D/3406/D)
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Poor Houses, Poor Law