Brooke (Aghadoe)

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.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballynona House	Ballynona South	Dungourney	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W929 761 OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 81
Bilberry Hill	Bilberry	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W910 754 OS Sheet: 65 Discovery map: 81
Clashduff	Clashduff	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W920 745 OS Sheet: 76 Discovery map: 81
Roxborough	Roxborough	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W904 745 OS Sheet: 76 Discovery map: 81
Dromdihy	Dromdihy	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: X007 773 OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 81
Aghadoe House (Killeagh)	Aghadoe	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: X001 777 OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 81
Mountbell	Mountbell	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W996 755 OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 81

Archival sources

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 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Deeds & estate papers, 17th-20th centuries. ; Northamptonshire Record Office

Contemporary printed sources

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)
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
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barrymore Barony, 174 (Ballynona South), 178 (Bilberry), 179 (Clashduff), 179 (Roxborough)
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)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 21 (Aghadoe), 24 (Dromdihy), 29 (Mountbell)

Modern printed sources

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
''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