Estate: Coppinger (West Carbery)

Associated Families

• Coppinger (West Carbery)

Description

The Coppinger family had held significant estates in West Carbery until after the Williamite wars when Walter Coppinger was attainted for high treason and deprived of much of his property. His son James was also deprived of property but Kingston asserts that he may have been able to lease some of this back at a later date. The family were never to have the same influence again in the area though they did continue as owners of smaller properties. Several members of the family are recorded as tenants in perpetuity of estates between 300 and 500 acres in the 1870s. A descendent of this branch of the Coppinger family, Dudley Byrne Coppinger, sold his interest in some property in the Landed Estates Court in January 1872. It was purchased by Joseph Pike.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Westfield (H2540) At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Margaret Long was leasing this property to Rev. John Coppinger when it was valued at £13 15s. The house is still extant and occupied.	Hollyhill	Aghadown	Skibbereen	Aghadown South 313	West Carbery (East)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.55511 -9.37999 OSI Ref: W043345 Discovery map #88. OS Sheet #141.
Coppinger's Court (H3166) Built by Sir Walter Coppinger in the early seventeenth century and partially destroyed in the 1641 Rebellion. Described by Bence-Jones as an impressive semi-fortified house. By the mid nineteenth century it had fallen into ruin and is not mentioned in Griffith's Valuation, when the lessor of the surrounding land was Lady Carbery's estate.	Ballyvireen	Ross	Clonakilty	Rosscarbery	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.57097 -9.06599 OSI Ref: W261359 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #143.

Archival sources

• University College Cork, Boole Library Archives: Volume compiled by or for John Windele containing pedigrees, copies of patents, poems, letters and other papers relating to County Cork and Co. Kerry families, O'Keeffe, Sarsfield, Mc Carthy, O'Donovan, Coppinger, Cotter, Crosbie, etc. including an O'Donovan pedigree by John Collins and copies of Crosbie papers in the possession of R. Sainthill 19th c.

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : West Carbery (East) Barony: 27 (Hollyhill)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 120

Modern printed sources

• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sale reports, 17 January 1872, p.4
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: SAMUEL, Mark. Coppinger's Court: a document in stone. LXXXIX (1984), 5-76.
• COPINGER W.A. History of the Copinger or Coppinger family of county Cork. London: Sotheran, 1884. : All
• COPINGER, W.A. A history of the Copingers or Coppingers of Co Cork. Manchester: 1882: All
• KINGSTON, W. J. The Story of West Carbery. Waterford: Friendly Press, 1985. : 81-82, 85-87.
• MARSDEN, Simon & McLAREN, Duncan. . In ruins: the once great houses of Ireland. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1997. : 34-35 (Coppinger's Court)

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