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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.HistoryCootehall was formerly called Urtaheera, or O'Mulloy's Hall, and was, early in the 17th century, together with the manor attached to it, the property of William, styled "the Great O'Mulloy ;" but in the war of 1641 it came into the possession of the English Cromwellian, Chidley Coote, nephew of the first Earl of Mountrath, and from that family took its present name.HouseIn the 17th and 18th century the house, also called Cootehall, was built and occupied by the Coote family.O'Carolan the famous piper 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. Was he an owner or a tenant? 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.