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Brooke (Dromavana/Drumavanagh)
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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
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