Cooper (Mayo, Tipperary, Cork and Westmeath)
Colonel Joshua Henry Cooper of Dunboden Park, Mullingar, county Westmeath, owned over 1700 acres in county Cork in the 1870s as well as lands in Westmeath. He was the second son of Richard Cooper and his wife the Honourable Emilia Frankfort de Montmorency. Richard Cooper was among the principal lessors in the parish of Killanully, barony of Kerrycurrihy, county Cork, in the 1850s. This family were a branch of the Coopers of Markree Castle, county Sligo. Colonel Joshua Henry Cooper's younger brother Colonel Richard Augustus Cooper of Kilcloonagh, county Tipperary and Warwickshire owned 1,623 acres in county Tipperary, 1,549 acres in county Mayo and 677 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. He married his cousin Cecily Cooper of Markree Castle. In the mid 19th century Richard Cooper held land in the county Tipperary parishes of Athnid and Inch, barony of Eliogarty. The eldes son of Richard W. Cooper and his wife Emilia De Montmorency was Edward Henry Cooper who held the townland of Ballyknockane in the parish of Templetuohy, barony of Ikerrin, county Tipperary in the mid 19th century. This property was leased to Paul Aitchison in 1856 and advertised for sale in January 1864. Edward Henry Cooper succeeded his uncle at Markree in 1863. A Co Westmeath estate was purchased by the Cooper family of Co Sligo after the death in 1797 of Robert Rochfort, a grandson of the Ist Earl of Belvedere. Edward Synge Cooper, second son of Joshua Cooper of Markree, Co Sligo, married Anne daughter of Harry Verelet, Governor of Bengal and died in 1830. His wife Anne, died in November 1864, aged 92 (Dublin Evening Mail, 26 November 1864) and is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation as holding an estate in the parishes of Kilbride and Mullingar. In the mid-1870s her grandson Colonel Joshua Henry Cooper of Dunboden owned 1,785 acres in Co Westmeath and 1,751 acres in Co Cork, while Mrs Cooper of Lifford Lodge, Kingstown owned 976 acres in Co Westmeath. In the early 1850s the representatives of Richard Cooper were among the principal lessors in the parish of Noughaval, barony of Kilkenny West.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Aitchison, 6 Jan 1864, Vol 71 (1), MRGS 39/035, (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] : 97
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 83, 120, 160
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 141 (Kilbride); 206 (Ballinderry); 235 (Petitswood)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 56 (Dunboden)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 366
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 109
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 22, 100, 101, 126
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 273