Cooke
The estate at Kilturra was originally part of the property of the Archdeacon of Achonry. It was held on a long lease by the Phillips family who built a house there c.1745, this house was later replaced. The property passed by inheritence through marriage to the McDermott family. It was sold by the Church Temporalities Commission in 1878 and purchased by John Ormsby Cooke. (O'Rorke's History of Sligo, Vol II, 196). McTernan notes that Cooke was a nephew of the McGettrick family, the previous owners. The Cookes had built up a landholding base in south Sligo during the previous century and at least two members of the family had acted as agents for the Phibbs estate in the parish of Achonry.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilturra | Kilturra | Kilturra | Tobercurry | Kilturra | Corran | Sligo |
OSI Ref: G604089
OS Sheet: 38 Discovery map: 32 |
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 96, also property in Carlow
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tobercurry Union 14
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 250, Timothy McDermott
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxix, 72 (Kilturra)