Coopershill House, County Sligo, and the O'Haras
Hello to you and yours,
I think your correspondent Barbara
Best (messages
no. 193 & 198
no.
273
&
no.
395) from London and I
are connected
somewhere. She is a carbon copy of an
aunt on my fathers side. I understand that we hail from a distant
grandfather who challenged Charles O'Hara ( was it him ?) when he
transferred the estates into the name of his sisters only child, on he
proviso that he change his name to O'Hara from Cooper. There was a
court case over it I understand, dcided by whoever had the deepest
pockets, I also understand. I had a factory in Ballyshannon in the 70's
and 80's and met with Dermot O'Hara in Annaghmore and William in
Coopershill House (Link). Dermot invited us to buy the
place admitting that he
wasn't really an O'Hara.........but it needed so muchwork that we chose
not to. I'm now a Tax Practitioner on Anglesy, retired, but working
harder than ever.
Regards
Viv G. O'Hara