page_title: Cootehall
section_title: House
hierarchical_section_title: Cootehall / House
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: historyofireland11845dalt (find matches) Title: The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle Year: 1845 (1840s) Authors: D'Alton, John, 1792-1867 Subjects: Publisher: Dublin, Pub. by the author Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston College Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: on. Some years since it waspurchased by the present proprietor, Mr. Barton.The face of this tract consists of hills, chiefly oflimestone gravel, with good parcels of soil inter-spersed among reclaimed bog. When Mr. Weldpublished his Survey of the County of Roscom-mon (1832), he stated, that, in several of the thennewly erected cottages on this estate, he found thewool-spinning assiduously practised, and loomscrowded to excess, for the manufacture of coarseflannels, striped woollens, and cotton stuffs; thereis, however, no manufacture or trade here now, andthe place presents a mixture of wretched cabins,with a Roman Catholic chapel wholly unworthyof religious appropriation. There are two fairs heldannually, on the 18th of May and 14th of Novem-ber. The old hall is situated on the summit of agentle eminence, and originally presented a large,quadrangular enclosure, or bawn, of about 100 yardssquare, boimded by lofty walls, with spacious, butlow, round towers, at each angle. The habitable Text Appearing After Image: ;;v^-f:/ THE PARISH OF TUMNA. 119 part occupied nearly tlie whole of the eastern side,and what remains of it (for it was burned down in1798 by the insurgents) is now, together with thenorthern tower, converted to a faim-housc. Fromthe terrace in front of the building a line view opensof Oakport Lough, witli the woods round the house.The approach to the hall was, and still is, up astraight inclined plane, the front of which is fdledby a conically topped, gable-like wall, perforatedwith three Saxon arched portals, the centre for car-riages, and the sides for foot-passengers. The as-cending avenue leads hence to another Saxon arch,opening into the court south of the hall. The river,where it passes out of the Lough of Oakport, iscrossed by an old straight bridge of seven arches, onthe off side of which, as sketclied in the annexedengraving, is an excellent police barrack, also fittedup for holding the district Petty Sessions. Wlicrethe Cootehall estate terminates, at the Shannon, asmall v Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Cootehall is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the River Boyle, between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon near Lough Key Forest Park in the north of the county.
  Cootehall lies 4 kilometres off the N4 road from Dublin to Sligo and between the R284 and R285 regional roads.
  The Boyle River, which flows through Cootehall, connects the village with Lough Key to the west and the River Shannon to the east.
context_section_description: In the 17th and 18th century the house, also called "Cootehall", was built and occupied by the Coote family. The piper Turlough O'Carolan is recorded as having visited the house and composed tunes for the occupants.
  At some part of the 18th century the house was occupied by Maurice O'Connor. Maurice O'Connor bought Coote Hall from the Coote family for £75,000 or £76,000 around 1725.  In the 19th century Coothall was part of the Kilronan Castle Estate which belonged to the Tenison family.
  A detail survey of Coothall was made in 1862 for E.K. Tenison. The house at Coothall was occupied by Mr. Barton as a tenant of the Kilronan Estate.
  Lady Louisa Tenison mentioned Coothall in her will of 1878 which is currently in the National Archives of Ireland.
  The house survives to the present day.
caption: Oakport Lough, viewed from Coote Hall (1845 engraving).
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