"Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> wrote in message news:dble1r$97m$2@pcls4.std.com... > Frank Duggan <frankeyd@bigpond.com.au> wrote: > : I came across an item saying that Col Thomas Coote came to Ireland with > : Cromwell and c.1653 claimed 17,000 plantation acres at/near Cootehill, > co > : Cavan. Shouldn't the item read 1,700 acres? The thousands quoted > seems > : excessive. > > When I first read this, I thought there couldn't possibly be 17,000 acres > in the town of Cootehill, but then it occurred to me that the 17,000 acres > could be the sum total of various tracts throughout Ireland awarded to > Thomas Coote of Cootehill and then it made sense. > > -dja There is an estate near Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, named "Mount Coote." Gerry