Coote (Ash Hill & Bearforest)

The Cootes of Ash Hill and Mount Coote, county Limerick, were descended from a younger brother of Sir Charles Coote, Earl of Mountrath. In 1666 Chidley Coote was granted almost 3,000 acres in counties Limerick and Kerry. The Cootes of Ash Hill married members of the Evans (Lord Carbery), Purdon and Carr families and eventually Charles Henry Coote of the Ash Hill family succeeded the last Earl of Mountrath as 9th Baronet in 1802. Charles Purdon Coote, a grandson of the 9th Baronet's younger brother Robert Carr Coote, owned 4,510 acres in county Cork and had seats at Ballyclough Castle and Bearforest, Mallow in the late 19th century. In the early 1850s the estate of his father, Charles P. Coote, was located in the parishes of Tullylease, Ballyclogh and Kilmaclenine, baronies of Duhallow and Orrery and Kilmore.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ash Hill Towers	Ash Hill	St Peters and St Pauls	Kilmallock	Kilmallock 43f	Coshlea	Limerick	OSI Ref: R602 272 OS Sheet: 47 Discovery map: 73
Longueville House	Longueville	Ballyclogh	Mallow	Ballyclogh 234	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W496 987 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80
Summerville	Gortnagross	Ballyclogh	Mallow	Ballyclogh 234	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W512 983 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80
Ballyclogh Castle	Ballyclogh	Ballyclogh	Mallow	Kilmaclenine 235	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	OSI Ref: R493 020 OS Sheet: 24 Discovery map: 73
Bearforest	Bearforest Lower	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow North Urban 251	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: W565 975 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80

Archival sources

Book of maps of estate of Earl of Mountrath in Cos Leix, Roscommon, Offaly, Limerick, Leitrim & Kildare, 1730. Microfilm P.3618; National Library of Ireland
Heytesbury Papers, including title deeds, leases, maps & surveys re the Irish estates of the Holmes family in Limerick, Waterford & Wicklow, with references to Coote of Ash Hill & Mount Coote, 17th-20th centuries. JER/HBY/; Isle of Wight Record Office
Book of maps of estate of Earl of Mountrath in Cos Leix, Roscommon, Offaly, Limerick, & Kildare, 1740. Microfilm P.3427; National Library of Ireland
Copy engraving of Coote Castle [Co Limerick], published by S. Hooper, 24 Jan 1792. 999/589; National Archives of Ireland
E.E. West Deposit, contains lease of lands of Clonan, Chidley Coote to James Casey of Gurtboy, farmer, 1776. Small Accs Index 82, D.12600 ; National Archives of Ireland
Shannon Papers, include papers relating to Mrs Anne Coot's estate at Ballyclogh, Co. Cork, 1750-1753. D2707/B/10; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 120
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 83
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow, 3 (Gortnagross), 5 (Longueville); Barony of Orrery & Kilmore, 5 (Ballyclogh)
TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 184 (Ash Hill)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 241 (Ballyclogh)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 203 (Ash-Hill)
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.104

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 321-322
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 13, 34
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 403
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 157, 250, 342
''The Irish Genealogist'': THE O’DONEVAN, Lieut. Colonel. Two Irish Personalities at War. III (1956-1965), 389-391
''Éire-Ireland'': DONNELLY, James S. Jnr. ''Big House burning in county Cork during the Irish revolution, 1920-21. XLVIII, 3 & 4, Fall-Winter (2012), pp.141-197.