Dopping/Dopping-Hepenstal (Derrycassan)
Burke suggests that the Dopping family became associated with the Derrycassan estate through the marriage of Anthony Dopping and Alice D’Arcy, whose family had previously owned the property. Anthony Dopping was the son of Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Ossory, 1740-43. The family became Dopping-Hepenstal through the marriage, in 1858, of Ralph Dopping and Diane Hepenstal of Altadore, County Wicklow. In 1878, Henry Dopping owned 193 acres in county Cavan and 690 acres in county Longford. Major R.A. Dopping-Hepenstal of Derrycassin owned over 1700 acres at the same time. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s, he was among the principal lessors in the parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard, County Longford. In the 1850s the estate was also among the principal lessors in the parish of Columbkille, barony of Granard. Hussey de Burgh recorded Major Ralph Dopping-Hepenstal as the owner of over 1700 acres in County Longford as well as over 1500 in County Wicklow. In the mid-19th century Henry Dopping held the townland of Arnaghan, 193 acres in the parish of Scrabby, barony of Tullyhunco, county Cavan. He was descended from the Right Reverend Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Ossory. He was the second son of Ralph Dopping of Erne Head, Derrycassan, county Longford and Catherine, daughter of Philip Smyth of Grousehall, Loughduff, county Cavan. In 1836, he married Frances Jessop of Mount Jessop, county Longford. In 1822, his older brother John of Derrycassan married Frances, daughter of James Henry Cottingham of Somerville, county Cavan.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Dopping-Hepenstall Papers, Manuscript Collection List 61; National Library of Ireland
- Rental of the Dopping (afterwards Dopping-Hepenstall) estates in County Longford, 1833 - 1882. Ms 9993; National Library of 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: 217
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Granard Union, p.65 (Derrycassan)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: p.152 (Granard Rural District)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.53 (Longford)
Modern printed sources
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Dopping Hepenstal Papers, No 363
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 258
- Columb, Frank. ''The Lough Gowna valley''. (Oxford: Gasan Academic publishing, 2002).: Hepenstal land owners, pp.73-74. Dopping and Dopping-Hepenstal, pp.85-146.
- Teathbha: Journal of the County Longford Historical Society: 'Haidee's diary'. A glimpse at daily life in the Big House 1889 as seen through the eyes of Haidee Dopping-Heppenstal, Derrycassan"