industry supermarket founded 1906 1906 headquarters dungloe county donegal republic of ireland revenue 15 million 1 number of employees 110 1 website thecope.ie the main cope store in dungloe co. donegal . the cope or the templecrone agricultural co operative society irish comharchumann talmha ochta agus s isialta theampall cr ine is a co operative retail chain indigenous to the rosses area of county donegal in ireland . founded in 1906 it has a number of normal supermarkets as well as a full department store a builders merchants and an agricultural division . the name comes from the inability of one of the founder shareholders to say co op as he could pronounce cope the name the cope was adopted . for the same reason some people use the term to refer to the group in the u.k. named the co operative group . outside of donegal the name is perhaps best known for being the semi official nickname of a local politician pat the cope gallagher who is a former minister of state . his family were connected to the foundation of the co operative . the founder of the chain patrick gallagher grandfather of the above and known as paddy the cope featured on a 48c irish stamp released on 16 january 2006 depicted in front of the group s first dungloe store . the supermarket section of its flagship dungloe department store was destroyed in fire in april 2006 although a reduced supermarket service was resumed within two weeks from elsewhere on the site . construction of a new supermarket began in january 2007 and has since been completed . initially co branded as a vivo store it is now operated as a eurospar . the cope has branches in the town of dungloe as well as annagry and kincasslagh villages . they formerly had branches in burtonport and narin but they have been closed ; with the former branch in lettermacaward now operated privately . references edit a b home page . the templecrone agricultural co operative society . retrieved 2008 08 05 . external links edit donegal co op damage in fire rte.ie v t e supermarkets in ireland main dunnes stores marks & spencer supervalu tesco convenience centra costcutter gala londis mace spar discount aldi lidl buy lo frozen iceland regional the cope joyces 365 jc s this retail business article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the cope & oldid 703621901 categories cooperatives in the republic of irelandcompanies established in 1906the rossessupermarkets of the republic of irelandretail company stubshidden categories articles containing irish language textall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 february 2016 at 16 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view