Estate: Cotter

Associated Families

• Cotter (Baronet)

Description

A family, possibly of Danish origin, who were settled in county Cork from at least the 16th century. James Cotter of Anngrove, county Cork, was executed in 1720 for supporting the Stuart claim to the English throne. His son, James Cotter of Rockforest, was member of parliament for Askeaton and was created a baronet in 1768. In 1746 he married Arrabella Casaubon, a widow, daughter and co heir of Lord Chief Justice John Rogerson. They had four sons. In 1820 their grandson, Sir James Laurence Cotter, member of parliament for Mallow, married Helena T. Lombard, daughter and co heir of James Lombard of Lombardstown, county Cork. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Cotter estate was located in the parishes of Clonmeen and Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow and Rahan, barony of Fermoy. Lands in the barony of Fermoy belonging to Sir James Cotter were advertised for sale in June 1850. In the 1870s Sir James L. Cotter of Sunny Hill, Mallow, owned 3,785 acres in county Cork while his uncle the Reverend George Cotter of Rockforest owned 916 acres. see http://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/OCotterHeber.php

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Aldworth (H2819) Hajba writes that this house was occupied by members of the Bolster family who held it from the Newmans in the late 18th century. It then became a Lombard property and passed from them to a relative, James Hunt. In the early 1850s it was occupied by James Laurence Cotter, held from James Hunt and valued at £14. This house is still occupied. Another house close by named Aldworth Lodge was also a Bolster home valued at £4+ at the time of Griffith's Valuation. A house is also extant at the latter site.	Aldworth	Kilshannig	Mallow	Kilshannig 248	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.09310 -8.72671 OSI Ref: W502 937 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #41.
Lombardstown House (H2843) The seat for many years of the Lombard family, built in the mid 18th century. In 1750 Smith refers to the house as "lately built by James Lombard". From the 1830s it was leased to the Bolster family. George Bolster held the house valued at £15 plus a demesne of 101 acres from Lady Cotter in the early 1850s. The Bolsters remained in residence until the late 19th century when they sold their interest to Henry G. Smith. His descendants continue to occupy the house (Hajba).	Lombardstown	Kilshannig	Mallow	Kilshannig 248	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.11797 -8.77383 OSI Ref: W470 965 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #32.
Sunny Hill (H3280) In 1786 Wilson refers to a seat of Mr. Cotter in the town of Mallow. James Delacour, second son of Robert Delacour of Beare Forest, was residing at Sunny Hill in the mid 19th century. He held the property from Henry Braddle and it was valued at £36. He was still described as "of Sunny Hill" in 1886. The house became a rectory for about fifty years in the 20th century. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey referred to it as "a fine well kept residence built by J. Carmichael". It is now a private residence named Duarrigle.	Annabella	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.13572 -8.66313 OSI Ref: W546 984 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #33.
Rockforest (H3311) The seat of the Cotter family from the mid 18th century and occupied by them until the 20th century. Wilson, writing in 1786, describes it as "a most beautiful improvment, highly wooded, situated on the Blackwater, the seat of James Laurence Cotter". Occupied by Mrs J.R. Cotter, sister-in-law of the 3rd Baronet, in the mid 19th century when the buildings were valued at £18. By 1906 its value had risen to £38.15 shillings. Only half of the house now survives, the Irish Tourist Association Survey of 1942 noting that "the greater part of the building had been knocked down". For sale in 2012 through Savills.	Rockforest East	Rahan	Mallow	Rahan 255	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.14069 -8.57263 OSI Ref: W608 989 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #33.
Anngrove (H3444) Bence Jones writes that this was originally a Cotter residence, sold to the Earls of Barrymore before the mid 18th century. Dobson Esq was resident in the 1770s and 1780s. By 1814 Francis Wise was resident and was still resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the house was valued at £30 and held from Sir William Clarke. The house was later inherited by the Gubbins family. Demolished post 1950.	Anngrove	Carrigtohill	Middleton	Carrigtohill 270	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.92063 -8.28201 OSI Ref: W806 743 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #75.
Ashton (H3828) A house occupied by John Cotter from at least 1814 until his death in 1864 and by Mrs Catherine Cotter until at least 1871. It is not clear if John Cotter was a member of the Cotter family, baronets. The house is now part of the Ashton School complex.	Knockrea	St Nicholas	Cork	Blackrock 95	Cork	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.89225 -8.45035 OSI Ref: W690 712 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #74.
Stannard's Grove (H3845) Located on the Cotter estate, this house was occupied by the Stannard family at the end of the 18th century. It was later occupied by the Adams and Smith families. Lewis records it as unoccupied and at the time of Griffith's Valuation it was held in fee by Edward Cotter. The home of William Stackpool at the beginning of the 20th century. Hajba writes that the house was reconstructed in 1924 after been blown up in 1921 by the British Crown Forces. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that it had, since 1934, been owned by the Herlihy family. It is still extant.	Carrigdownane Lower	Carrigdownane	Mitchelstown	Derryvillane 290	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.21962 -8.39219 OSI Ref: R732 076 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #18.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Mallow
• Irish Genealogical Research Society Library: Pedigree of the Cotter family of county Cork (Leader Collection)
• King's Inn Library: Cotter (Laurence) of Ballyvillon, Co. Cork. appellant versus James, Earl of Barrymore, respondent concerning the lands of Ballyvillon, Liminisky, Tineglassy, and Danecollig, Co. Cork. Appellants' case and respondent's case. 1732-3. House of Lords Appeals: Vol. 11
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Cotter, 4 June 1850, Vol 1 (40), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: A collection of transcripts of deeds, letters and other documents (some in Irish) relating to members of the Cotter family, from the 17th to 19th century, compiled by the Rev. George E. Cotter, c. 1878. MS 711

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow, Part II, 7 (Aldworth), 32 (Lombardstown)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 27 (Carrigdownane Lower), 173 (Rockforest East),
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cork Barony, 93 (Knockrea)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.107
• 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] : 103
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 13 (Ashton), 338 (Rockforest), 361 (Stannard's Grove - William Adams)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 208 (Ashton), 279 (Stannard's Grove), II, 338-341 & 480 (Rockforest)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 242 (Rockforest East)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 120
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxxii, 296 (Rockforest)
• SMITH, Charles, M.D. The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof . First published 1750. This edition published Cork: John Connor, 1815: I, 341 (Rockforest)
• 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: 167 (Anngrove - Dobson)
• TOWNSEND, Horatio. Statistical survey of the county of Cork... Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 515 (Rockforest)
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 234 (Rockforest), 235 (Mallow), 345 (Ann-Grove [Dobson])

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: J. C. Notes on the Cotter family of Rockforest, Co Cork. XIV, 2nd Series (1908), 1-12
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXIV, 2nd Series (1918), 175-176 (Rockforest)
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: The Cotter Family of Rockforest, Co Cork, being portion of a history of the family by the late Rev Charles P. Cotter. XLIII 2nd Series (1938), 21-31
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: HOGAN, William & Ó BUACHALLA, Liam (eds). The Letters and Papers of James Cotter Junior 1689-1720. 2nd Series, LXVIII (1963), 66-95
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: BLACKALL, Sir Henry. Note on the letters and papers of James Cotter Junior 1689-1720. 2nd Series, LXIX (1964), 136-138
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXVI (1920), 226-227 (Stannard's Grove)
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 243 (Rockforest)
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 6 (Anngrove)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 329-330
• GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds). Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 45
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 27, 249, 315, 339