Coote Hill, in the county of Cavan, was the residence of the Honourable Thomas Coote, son of Richard, Baron Coote. Mr. Coote was one of the Justices of the King's Bench, and in 1696 one of the Commissioners entrusted with the Great Seal, He married three times: 1st. Frances, daughter and co-heir of Colonel Christopher Copley; 2ndly, Elinor, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas St. George; and 3rdly, in 1679, Anne, widow of William Tigh, Esq., and daughter of Mr. Alderman Christopher Lovett, of Dublin, by whom he left six children. Mr. Coote died 24th April, 1741. His second daughter by his third wife, married in 1704, Mervyn Pratt, Esq., of Cabra Castle, in the county of Cavan, which place is also mentioned in the narrative as ‘Cabaragh’.