Estate: Coppinger (Carhue & Leemount)

Associated Families

• Colthurst (Dripsey Castle)
• Coppinger (Carhue & Leemount)

Description

The Coppingers of Carhue, parish of Magourney, county Cork, were Catholic landowners until the late 18th century. Thomas Stephen Coppinger was then the owner of the estate but he lost half of it when his first cousin, Thomas John Coppinger, became a Protestant and claimed it. Thomas John Coppinger married Mary Gollock of Forest and they were the parents of John Rye Coppinger and Mary Coppinger who, in 1808, married William Thorne. Their son, Henry Thorne Coppinger, was resident at Carhue at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In July 1854 the estate of Thomas Gollock Coppinger, heir-at-law of John Rye Coppinger, who was assignee of the estate and effects of Joseph Coppinger, an insolvent, was advertised for sale. The lands of Coolmuckey, Scart, Kilbonane and Mohallagh amounted to over 800 acres. The fee simple estate of Carhue belonging to Henry Thorne Coppinger was offered for sale in April 1856, amounting to 284 acres. The property appears to have been bought in trust by James Harding for one of the Colthursts of Dripsey Castle. In July 1868, Greenlodge, the estate of Anna Maria Coppinger, widow, was advertised for sale with 159 acres. This property was sold to J.S. Coppinger for over £1500.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Leemount (H3091) Leemount was the home of Thomas Coppinger in 1814 and of Thomas Gollock in 1837. In the early 1850s this house was occupied by Thomas H. Broderick, valued at £30, and held from Thomas Gollock. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the residence of Albert Beamish. Leemount is recorded as one of the residences of John Lindsay, eldest son of George Crawford Lindsay of Moorlands, county Down in Walfords (1910). This original house was burnt in March 1921 during the War of Independence when it was the residence of Maria Lindsay, later executed as an informer by the IRA. It was replaced by the existing house.	Leemount	Magourney	Macroom	Magourney 217	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.90389 -8.79776 OSI Ref: W451 727 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #72.
Carhue/Carhoo (H3092) A Coppinger family home, occupied by John Rye Coppinger in 1814 and 1837 and by Henry J. Coppinger in the early 1850s. Henry J. Coppinger held the property in fee and it was valued at £18. The sale rental of 1856 states that the mansion house had recently been repaired and that Henry T. Coppinger was tenant under the Court of Chancery. A lithograph of the house and demesne is included. Burkes (1904) records George Colthurst (born 1811) of Carhue House. John Good was residing in this house in the mid 1870s. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of John H. Colthurst. Carhoo House is still extant.	Carhoo Lower	Magourney	Macroom	Magourney 217	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.90289 -8.81227 OSI Ref: W441 726 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #72.
Green Lodge (H3146) Occupied by R. Coppinger in 1837 and by Anne Coppinger at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held by her in fee. The buildings were valued at £15.10 shillings. The sale rental of 1868 records the leasing of this property by George Lombard to Thomas Stephen Coppinger in 1789 for 999 years and the leasing of the Coppinger interest to Charles Manning in 1860 for 600 years. The Irish Tourist Association survey notes that it was built by the Coppinger family, "one of whose members turned Protestant to save the estate". It is no longer extant.	Monareagh	Magourney	Macroom	Magourney 217	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.90924 -8.80367 OSI Ref: W447 733 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #72.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association files, Parish of Aghabulloge
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Coppinger, 3 July 1854, Vol 30 (2), MRGS 39/013, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Thorne Coppinger, 17 Apr 1856, Vol 39 (7), MRGS 39/018, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Coppinger, 7 July 1868, Vol 90 (56), MRGS 39/044, (microfilm copy in NUIG)

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. : East Carberry Barony, 141 (Carhoo Lower), 148 (Monareagh)
• 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] : 99
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 262 (Lee mount)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 335 (Carhue)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 120

Modern printed sources

• Freeman's Journal: Encumbered Estates Court sale reports, 18 April 1856, p.4.
• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sale reports, 8 July 1868, p.4.
• LYONS, Mary C. Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 166-167 (Carhoo)