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| The tartan that heads this page is the County Cork tartan. Unlike the Scots, most Irish families or clans didn't have specific tartans, but each county has a tartan to represent it. There are also national tartans for Ireland. To see all the Irish tartans visit Scotch Corner. |
| Paul and Elizabeth Copinger have an extensive Coppinger/Copinger family site which includes the text of a family history written in 1884 by Paul's great-grandfather. It focuses on the Cork family's branches and traces the family back to the 1540's. |
| One of the family's more, er, colorful characters was "Cruel" Coppinger. Whether the actual human being was anything like the legend that has grown up about him is doubtful, but tales of this mysterious wrecker, who caused ships to wreck, then helped himself to their cargoes, still survive in Cornwall. |
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| One of the Cop(p)inger coats of arms |
| Rosscarbery is a town in Cork near the Cop(p)inger ancestral home, Copinger Court. To virtually visit Rosscarbery, which grew up around a 6th c. monastery, click on either (or both!) of the square knotwork buttons on Co. Cork on the map below. |
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| Unsure where Cork is? This is it! |
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| Copinger's Court was built by Sir Walter Copinger in 1621 and burnt down by rebels (one of them purportedly his own son) in 1641, two years after his death. It stands in the Rowry valley between Rosscarbery and Glandore in County Cork. |
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| Our wedding portrait -- September 15, 2001 |
| The Counties of Ireland |
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