Qualla: Cootehill https://qualla.com/cootehill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/g/cootehill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cootehill https://qualla.com/cootehill Cootehill: Introduction https://qualla.com/cootehill/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1872, in a Cavan market town founded by a Cromwellian colonel, a branch of the International Workingmen's Association opened its doors. Karl Marx's First International, the parent body, had branches in Dublin, Cork and Belfast, and now in Cootehill, a town of perhaps a few thousand people. Why a small Irish linen town joined a global socialist movement is one of those quirks that local history sometimes throws up and then mostly forgets. But Cootehill specialises in unexpected combinations. Its Palladian villa rivals anything by Edward Lovett Pearce. Its workhouse held 800 inmates. Its 21st-century factories make infant formula for Abbott Laboratories. Few towns of its size carry as much complicated history per square kilometre.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/g/cootehill-wp/gcdg-cootehill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cootehill: Coote's Charter https://qualla.com/cootehill/ Photo credit Mbreathnach, CC BY-SA 4.0. The town's founder was Thomas Coote, born around 1620, a Cromwellian colonel who later became a judge of the Court of King's Bench. The lands were granted to his father, Sir Charles Coote, after the Act of Settlement in 1662. Thomas married Frances Hill of Hillsborough, County Do...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/g/cootehill-wp/gcdg-cootehill-cootes-charter.mp3 0:06 2 full Cootehill: Pearce's Hidden Masterpiece https://qualla.com/cootehill/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1725 and 1730, Thomas Coote's nephew Edward Lovett Pearce designed Bellamont House just outside town. Pearce was Surveyor General of Ireland until his death in 1733, and his major works include the former Houses of Parliament in College Green, Dublin, now the Bank of Irel...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/g/cootehill-wp/gcdg-cootehill-pearces-hidden-masterpiece.mp3 0:06 3 full Cootehill: Bishop's Son, Carnival King https://qualla.com/cootehill/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cootehill has produced an unusually international cast of children. Mary Anne Madden Sadlier, born here in 1820, emigrated to Canada and became one of the most popular Irish-Catholic novelists of nineteenth-century North America. John Charles McQuaid, born in 1895, rose to become...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/g/cootehill-wp/gcdg-cootehill-bishops-son-carnival-king.mp3 0:06 4 full Cootehill: Workhouse and Wind Farms https://qualla.com/cootehill/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Cootehill workhouse was built in 1841-42 to designs by George Wilkinson. It was meant to hold 800 inmates. A fever hospital was added in 1846 as the Great Famine bit down. It closed in 1917 after serving as an asylum for a few years and was demolished in the 1960s. The town's...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/g/cootehill-wp/gcdg-cootehill-workhouse-and-wind-farms.mp3 0:06 5 full Cootehill: What Endures https://qualla.com/cootehill/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Walking Market Street today, you pass Georgian buildings the Cootes' charter set in motion, the William G. Murray-designed sandstone-faced bank building of 1858, the 1819 Church of Ireland church and the renovated St Michael's Roman Catholic Chapel within ninety metres of each ot...

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