Estate: Brooke (Aghadoe)

Associated Families

• Brooke (Aghadoe) (Baronet)
• Supple (Aghadoe)
• Davis (Dromdihy)

Description

Mary Brooke, daughter of Arthur Brooke of the Broke/Brooke family of Great Oakley, Northamptonshire, married Richard Supple of Aghadoe, county Cork and had a son, Richard Brooke Supple, who eventually inherited both the Supple estate and the Brooke estate in Northamptonshire. Richard took the surname Brooke and the original surname of the Supple family, De Capell. In 1788 Richard marrried Mary Worge and in 1803 he was created a baronet. He had two sons. The eldest son, Sir Arthur De Capell Broke (spelt his name with only one 'o'), was an author of travel books. At the time of Griffith's Valuation his Irish estate was comprised of townlands in the parishes of Killeagh and Mogeely, barony of Imokilly and Inchinabacky and Dungourney, barony of Barrymore. Sir Arthur died in 1858 and was succeeded by his brother, Sir William De Capell Brooke. Captain Sir William Brooke of Market Harborough, England, owned 2,132 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. William Davis and his son Roger Green Davis were agents to this estate in the early 19th century.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballynona House (H3460) The main seat of the Wigmore family, occupied by Richard H. Wigmore in 1814 and R. Wigmore in 1837. Henry Wigmore held the property from Sir Arthur Brooke in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £15+.	Ballynona South	Dungourney	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.93710 -8.10325 OSI Ref: W929 761 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #66.
Bilberry Hill (H3463) In 1786 Wilson writes that Bilberry Hill was the residence of the late Mr. Drury. It was the home of the Garde family in the nineteenth century, occupied in 1814 by William Garde and in the early 1850s by Winifred Garde. She held the property from Sir A. Brooke and the buildings were valued at £8.15 shilllings. The 25-inch Ordnance Survey map shows a later and larger building labelled Bilberry, which is still extant.	Bilberry	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.93079 -8.13086 OSI Ref: W910 754 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #65.
Clashduff (H3464) Peter Warner was occupying a house valued at £18 in the townland of Clashduff at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held this property from Sir A. Brooke. This may be the house recorded by Lewis as Castle View in the parish of Inchinabacky and inhabited by P. Warner. Peter Warner of Clashduff, Middleton owned 205 acres in the 1870s	Clashduff	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.92271 -8.11630 OSI Ref: W920 745 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Roxborough (H3469) Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to "Rocksborough" as the seat of Mr. Ball. The residence of Bent Ball in 1814 and of - McSweeny in 1837, this house was unoccupied in the early 1850s when it was valued at £22. The immediate lessor was Sir A. Brooke. The house has disappeared by the time the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map was published in the 1890s and the Youghal branch of the Great Southern & Western railway constructed close by.	Roxborough	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.92269 -8.13956 OSI Ref: W904 745 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Dromdihy (H3527) The building of this house was completed in 1833 for Roger Green Davis. He is recorded as the occupier in the early 1850s holding the house valued at £45 from Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke. The sale rental of 1863 gives a detailed description of this house - "Drumdiah House consists of a centre and two wings, ornamented with Doric columns and with a portico at the eastern end, by the hall is entered, and off which are hot, cold, vapour and shower baths. The first floor comprises five sitting-rooms; on the second floor are four best bedrooms, with dressing-rooms and water-closet......". In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey reported that the house had been "destroyed in the Troubles". It is now a ruin.	Dromdihy	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.94794 -7.98982 OSI Ref: X007 773 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #66.
Aghadoe House (Killeagh) (H3530) Lewis writes in 1837 that “The present house is about to be replaced by a castellated mansion”. The earlier house is referred to by Wilson in 1786 as the seat of Simon Dring. Aghadoe was occupied by Thomas M. Green at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house, valued at £27, was held by him from Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke. The house is no longer extant.	Aghadoe	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.95153 -7.99855 OSI Ref: X001 777 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #66.
Mountbell (H3535) In 1786 Wilson refers to Mount Bell as a residence of the Garde family. It was ccupied by Edmund MacKey in 1814 and by Edward Lane in the early 1850s. Lane held the house valued at £10 from Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke. A house and large farm are still extant at the site.	Mountbell	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.93176 -8.00582 OSI Ref: W996 755 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #66.

Archival sources

• Northamptonshire Record Office: Deeds & estate papers, 17th-20th centuries.
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Brooke of Killeagh Papers, comprising letters, correspondence, tenants memorials, rentals & valuations re successive generations of the Supple/Brooke family including Richard Supple; Sir Richard Brooke, 1st Bt; Sir Arthur Brooke, 2nd Bt; Sir William Brooke, 3rd Bt; & Sir Richard Brooke, 4th Bt; & the administration of their estate in Co. Cork centred around the small town of Killeagh, between Castlemartyr and Youghal. Also includes material relating to the Hull family, previous owners of the Killeagh estate, 1700-1854. T2975

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barrymore Barony, 174 (Ballynona South), 178 (Bilberry), 179 (Clashduff), 179 (Roxborough)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 21 (Aghadoe), 24 (Dromdihy), 29 (Mountbell)
• HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 54
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 294 (Mountbell - Edmund Mackey)343 (Roxborough - Bent Ball)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 16 (Roxborough, - McSweeny), II, 134 (Agadoe House)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 118 (Brooke), 205 (Warner)

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: C.J. A County Cork Baronet's change of name, Sir Richard Brooke de Capell Brooke. Ser. 2, Vol. X, (1904), p. 209
• The Irish Genealogist: MACCOTTER, Paul. The de la Chapelle or Supple or de Capel-Brooke families of Cork, Limerick and Kerry. XIII (2013), 311-343.
• BURKE, Sir Bernard & BURKE, Ashworth P. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council and Knightage. London: Burke's Peerage, 1932: 371-372
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Revised calendar (prepared for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, reference T. 2975) of the papers of the Brooke family of Killeagh, Co. Cork, in the Northamptonshire Record Office. Special List 205B & 210