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Cootehill

Cootehill circa 1835
By permission of the Royal Irish Academy

"Cootehill or Moybologue (formerly the name of the parish) is a market town and a parish, partly in the barony of Lower Kells, county of Meath, province of Leinster, partly in that of Castlerahan, but chiefly in Clankee barony, county of Cavan, about 54 miles NW from Dublin, 7.5 NE from Virginia, 14 NW by N from Kells, and 12.5 S from Cootehill; situated in a valley on the road between the two last named towns. It consists of one principal street and two diverging lanes. There is no particular branch of trade flourishing here, the business enjoyed being of a general and local nature, carried on by the shopkeepers."
[From Slater's Directory (1896)]

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 Rev^d 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 19^th day of July 1848 in the 40^th year of his age.
  • In this Vault rest the remains of Brampton Phillip [sic] Gurdon Esq^r eldest son of the Rev^d Phillip Gurdon and Sarah his wife of Assington Hall, Suffolk, in England. Cornet in the 6^th Regiment of Dragoon Guards - His friends who loved him felt his loss on the 22^nd day of March 1804.

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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

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

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

• The Coote papers

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Maps

• 1777 Coaching Route
• Town

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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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[Last updated: 12 February 2003 - Colin Ferguson ]