Landed Estates
University of Galway

Brooke (Dromavana/Drumavanagh)

According to Burke’s (1904) William Brooke purchased Dromavana, county Cavan from the Saunderson family in 1685. He had three sons. The eldest, William of Rantavan House, county Cavan, had a son Henry of Rantavan, author of a number of books and a granddaughter Charlotte Brooke, author of ‘Translations from Irish Bards’. The Brookes of Dromavana descend from the second son Alexander and the third son the Reverend Henry Brooke was rector of Kinawley, county Fermanagh. Alexander’s son the Reverend William Brooke of Dromavana and Firmount, county Longford, had a son William Brooke MD of Dromavana, Dublin and Coolmain, county Monaghan. He married Angel daughter of Captain Edward Perry of Perrymount, county Tyrone and grand niece and heiress of Colonel Richard Graham of Coolmain. In the mid-19th century their second son, the Reverend Edward Perry Brooke, held lands in the parishes of Monaghan and Tehallan, county Monaghan. In 1876 the Reverend Brooke owned 571 acres in the county. A house known as Brookvale in the townland of Drumavanagh, on the outskirts of Cavan town, was in the possession of the Reverend Andrew Hogg in the mid-19th century. http://www.peterbrooke.org/peter-brooke-cv/family.html

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Coolmain House Coolmain Monaghan Monaghan Rackwallace Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H702341
OS Sheet: 9
Discovery map: 28A
Rantavan Rantavan Mullagh Kells Mullagh Castlerahan Cavan OSI Ref: N694846
OS Sheet: 44
Discovery map: 35
Brookvale Drumavanagh Urney Cavan Cavan Rural Upper Loughtee Cavan OSI Ref: H415051
OS Sheet: 20
Discovery map: 34

Archival sources

  • Pedigree of Brooke of Killister, Co. Dublin, Rantavan, Co. Cavan, and the Island of St. Helena, South Atlantic, 1666 -- c.1820. GO Ms.171, pp.343-9; National Library of Ireland
  • Copy: Marriage Settlement made by James Alexr. Ross, merchant, of Monaghan, James Mollen Ross, of Monaghan, Jane Buchanan, of Dublin, Johnston Hamilton Acheson, surgeon in R.N., of Eccles St., Dublin, John Goudy of Coolmain, Co. Monaghan, of 76 acres, two roods and 24 perches, Aughnaseda, Co. Monaghan. Consideration. 10/-, 20 January 1851. D889/1/345; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Copy: Conveyance for Lives, Acheson and Goudy, by James A. Ross, of Monaghan, James M. Ross, of Monaghan, to Johnston H. Acheson, Eccles St., Dublin, and John Goudy, of Coolmain, Monaghan, of tenement in Monaghan Town between Diamond and Mill Street. Consideration. 10/-, 9 September 1851. D889/1/346; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Rainsford Papers 1771-2007, contain information about the Brooke family of Dromavanagh, see https://iar.ie/archive/rainsford-papers/. ; Longford County Archives
  • Memo. concerning Colonel Brooke's lands in Cavan. Foster's interposition with the Chancellor is sought. no date. D562/11300; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

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Modern printed sources