Cooper (Killenure)

This family, originally from Surrey, settled at Butterhill in county Wicklow in the 17th century. Following the appointment of William Cooper as Registrar of the Diocese of Cashel, one branch settled at Killenure Castle, county Tipperary in the mid 18th century. William Cooper and his wife, Jane Wayland, had two sons, Samuel of Killenure, agent to the Maude, Damer and Erasmus Smith Schools estates and Austin, an antiquarian and agent to a number of landlords including the 2nd Earl of Leitrim, Baron Milton and Viscount Hawarden. In the mid 19th century Samuel Cooper held land in the parishes of Kilmaleery and Kilnasoolagh, barony of Bunratty Lower, and Kilseily, barony of Tulla Lower, county Clare. The main part of the Cooper estate was in county Tipperary, in the parishes of St Johnbaptist, barony of Middlethird, Cullen and Solloghodbeg, barony of Clanwilliam, Donohill and Oughterleague, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower. In November 1854 the interest of Patrick J. O'Kearney and others in the lands of Ballywalter was advertised for sale, Samuel Cooper was the tenant. He held on a lease dated 28 December 1852. In the 1870s Samuel Cooper of Killenure, Cashel, county Tipperary, owned 826 acres in county Tipperary and 344 acres in county Clare. His brother was Richard Austin Cooper Chadwick. [Another brother, William L. Cooper of England owned 727 acres in county Tipperary].

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Lackenacoombe	Lackenacoombe	Donohill	Tipperary	Donohill 152	Kilnamanagh Lower	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R923 497 OS Sheet: 51 Discovery map: 66
Kilmore	Kilmore Upper	Killmore	Cashel	Oughterleague 53	Kilnamanagh Lower	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R992 421 OS Sheet: 60 Discovery map: 66
Killenure Castle	Killenure	Oughterleague	Cashel	Oughterleague 53	Kilnamanagh Lower	Tipperary	OSI Ref: S002 439 OS Sheet: 52 Discovery map: 66
Ballywalter	Ballywalter	Oughterleague	Cashel	Oughterleague 53	Kilnamanagh Lower	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R996 430 OS Sheet: 60 Discovery map: 66
Camus	Camus	St Patricksrock	Cashel	Cashel Rural	Middlethird	Tipperary	OSI Ref: S047 427 OS Sheet: 60 Discovery map: 66

Archival sources

Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of Austin Cooper of Abbeyville and Kensealy, Co. Dublin, younger son of William Cooper of Killenure Castle, Co. Tipperary, son of Samuel Cooper of Beamore, Co. Meath and to the great great grandson of the said Austin, being Capt. Matthew Pennefather Lloyd Cooper, son of Mark Bloxham Cooper, Q. C., of Dublin April 9, 1930. Genealogical Office: Ms.111d, fol.17-8 ; National Library of Ireland
Diaries of Samuel Cooper 1782-1823, housekeeper's book 1846-1849 & also estate papers 19th century. TL/F/9; Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles
Villiers-Stuart Papers, Letters to Sir William Homan from Samuel Cooper, of Killenure Castle, Co. Tipperary, and Ring, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, 1808-1810. Ms. 24,610 .; National Library of Ireland
Account books of Austin Cooper, acting as agent for, inter alia, the estates of Lord Leitrim at Mohill and Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, of Lord Massereene in Co. Monaghan, of Lord Allen, at Punchestown, Co. Kildare, of Lord Hawarden in Counties Kilkenny and Tipperary, and of Lord Milton, later earl of Dorchester, in Counties Clare and Tipperary, 1787-c.1830; inventory of the property etc. of Austin Cooper, following his death, c. 1830-31. Mic/251; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Brodrick (Charles) Archbp. of Cashel: Letters of Charles Broderick. Archbp. of Cashel to Austin Cooper, 1802-21. Microfilm P3476; National Library of Ireland
Diaries of Samuel Cooper 1782-1823 with gaps. Contact Anthony Austin Cooper, England.; Private Possession
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), O’Kearney (Ballywalter), 24 Nov 1854, Vol 32 (12), MRGS 39/014, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

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] : 98
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 108
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, 46 (Lackenacoombe), 56 (Kilmore Upper), 63 (Ballywalter), 65 (Killenure)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 238 (Killenure)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 452 (Killenure Castle), 187 (Kilmore)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Middlethird, 169 (Camus)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxix, 287 (Killenure Castle)

Modern printed sources

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Cooper of Killanure Castle, Dundrum, Co Tipperary, includes reference to Curtis, Damer, Cooper families & to lands in Cos Cork, Clare, Limerick & Tipperary. Report No. 125
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 110
''Tipperary Historical Journal'': MARNANE, Denis G. Samuel Cooper of Killenure (1750-1831) - a Tipperary Land Agent and his Diaries. (1993), 102-
COOPER, Richard Austin. ''Butterhill and beyond - an illustrated history of the Cooper family of Byfleet,: Killenure Castle, Co Tipperary and Abbeville House, Co Dublin''. The author, 1991: All
AUSTIN-COOPER, Richard. ''Butterhill & Beyond (on a chapeau gules)''. The author, 1991: All