Dopping (Lowtown)
In 1703, Reverend Anthony Dopping purchased over 200 acres of Ballyeighter, barony of Farbill, county Westmeath, from the Trustees of forfeited estates for £500. Anthony Dopping of Lowtown, county Westmeath, married Alice daughter of James D’Arcy of Hyde Park, county Westmeath and Derrycassan, county Longford. She brought a fortune of £6,000. Their eldest son Samuel Dopping married Anne Kelly and had a son William. This was the Lowtown branch of the family. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Anne Dopping was the immediate lessor of three townlands in the parish of Killucan. William Dopping (1812-1897), [librarian, Parliament House, Melbourne], Australia, owned an estate of 1,171 acres in county Westmeath in the mid-1870s. In 1843, he married Jane, daughter of Reverend Cecil Crampton, rector of Killucan and they had two children Antoine and Victoria. Ralph Dopping of Erne Head, Derrycassan was the second son of Anthony and Alice Dopping. Their eldest son John inherited Derrycassan and their younger son Henry lived at Erne Head. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s, he was among the principal lessors in the parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erne Head | Culray | Abbeylara | Granard | Sonnagh | Longford |
OSI Ref: N278858
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Lowtown House | Lowtown or Balleighter | Killucan | Mullingar | Griffithstown 73 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N545468
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 49 |
Archival sources
- Dopping-Hepenstal Papers refer to Dopping lands in Co Westmeath – Collection list 61; National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Dopping, 8 Nov 1864, Vol 74 (29), MRGS 39/036, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives 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: 82
- 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] : 134
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix III. Abstracts of the conveyances from the trustees of the Forfeited Estates and Interests in Ireland in 1688'.: 392
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 178 (Lowtown)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 277 (Lowtown)
- 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: 62, 74
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 156 (Lowtown)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: : P.152 (Rural district of Granard)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Granard Union, p.30 (Culray)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol. I, p.s (Abbeylaragh parish, 'Kilrea')
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 258
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 143
- Columb, Frank. ''The Lough Gowna valley''. (Oxford: Gasan Academic publishing, 2002).: Dopping and Dopping-Hepenstal, pp.85-146.