Research Focus

The goal is to compare land records, maps, sponsors, witnesses, neighbors, and related families to understand how Patrick Dargan / Dorgan fits into the wider East Cork Dorgan / Dargan family network

Dargan / Dorgan spelling variants

Carrigkilter townland evidence

Griffith’s Valuation and valuation-office records

Map references and neighboring households

Parish-register sponsors, witnesses, and family clues

Connections to nearby East Cork places and surnames

Evidence Used in This Study

Carrigkilter research depends on comparing many small pieces of evidence. No single record tells the whole story. The strength of the case comes from reading land records, maps, parish registers, family names, and neighboring households together.

Land and valuation records

Griffith’s Valuation, valuation-office books, and related land records help place Dargan / Dorgan families in Carrigkilter and nearby East Cork townlands.

Historic maps

Maps help connect record references to real places, roads, holdings, neighbors, and parish geography.

Parish registers

Baptisms, marriages, sponsors, and witnesses may reveal family relationships and local connections.

Spelling variants

Dargan, Dorgan, and related forms must be compared carefully because spelling often changed from record to record.

Neighboring families

Nearby households and repeated surnames may help identify kinship networks and community ties.

Carrigkilter Evidence List

The following records and research notes relate specifically to Dargan / Dorgan families associated with Carrigkilter. Each item is presented as evidence rather than proof. Conclusions are drawn only after multiple independent sources are compared.

Evidence Entry 1: Griffith's Valuation

Source: Griffith’s Valuation, County Cork

Townland: Carrigkilter

Parish: Ballintemple

Barony: Imokilly

Union: Middleton

Surname: Dargan / Dorgan

Person: Patrick Dargan / Dorgan

Date: 1853

Details:

Griffith’s Valuation records Patrick Dargan in Carrigkilter, Ballintemple Parish, Barony of Imokilly, Union of Middleton, County Cork. He is listed as a tenant of Thomas G. Durdin. The record appears on page 2, printing date 1853, Act 15&16, sheet 89, map reference 8.

This evidence is important because it connects Patrick Dargan / Dorgan to a specific townland, landlord, valuation sheet, and map reference in the mid-nineteenth century. It helps anchor the Carrigkilter Dorgan family in a specific place and provides a foundation for comparing parish-register records, maps, valuation-office books, neighboring households, and later family evidence.

Research Notes:

This record should be compared with valuation maps, later valuation-office records, census returns, parish-register baptisms and marriages, and nearby surnames. The spelling Dargan / Dorgan should be treated as part of the same working research problem until the records are compared in detail.

Related Families:

Flynn, Barry, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, and other neighboring East Cork families.

Confidence Level:

Strong place evidence for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Carrigkilter in 1853. Further comparison is needed before drawing final conclusions about all family relationships.

Evidence Entry 2: Parish Register Connections

Source: Catholic parish registers, East Cork

Townland / Area: Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, Cloyne, and nearby places

Surname: Dargan / Dorgan

Date Range: 1830s–1860s

Details:

Parish-register evidence is central to the Carrigkilter study because baptisms, marriages, sponsors, and witnesses may connect the Dargan / Dorgan family to nearby families and places. Records connected with Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn are especially important because they help place the family within the wider Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, and East Cork parish network.

Research Notes:

Each baptism or marriage should be studied not only for the child, parents, or couple named, but also for sponsors, witnesses, spelling variants, residence notes, and repeated surnames. Sponsors and witnesses may point to relatives, neighbors, in-laws, or long-standing community connections.

Related Families:

Flynn, Barry, Motherway, Savage / Lavage, Millerick, Boozane, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, and other connected East Cork families.

Confidence Level:

Strong research value. Parish-register entries provide important family and community clues, but each connection should be compared with land records, maps, census records, and other evidence before final conclusions are drawn.

Evidence Entry 3: Maps and Location Context

Source: Historic maps, valuation maps, townland maps, and modern location references

Townland / Area: Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Ballymacoda, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ladysbridge, and nearby East Cork places

Surname: Dargan / Dorgan

Date Range: 1800s–present reference use

Details:

Maps are important to the Carrigkilter study because they help connect written records to real places. Townland names, roads, nearby farms, churches, graveyards, harbors, and neighboring communities can help explain why the same families appear together in parish registers, valuation records, census returns, and local family traditions.

Research Notes:

Carrigkilter should be studied in relation to nearby Ballybraher, Ballymacoda, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ladysbridge, Churchtown South, Ballycatoo, and Midleton. Comparing maps with Griffith’s Valuation, valuation-office records, parish registers, and later census returns may help identify family movement, neighboring households, landholding patterns, and community connections.

Related Families:

Dorgan / Dargan, Flynn, Barry, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, Motherway, Millerick, Boozane, and other nearby East Cork surnames.

Confidence Level:

Strong supporting evidence. Maps do not prove family relationships by themselves, but they help place records in their local setting and make it easier to compare families, neighbors, churches, roads, and landholdings.

Evidence Entry 4: Census and Household Records

Source: Census returns, household schedules, house and building returns, and related census material

Townland / Area: Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ladysbridge, and nearby East Cork places

Surname: Dargan / Dorgan

Date Range: Late 1800s–1900s

Details:

Census and household records help show how Dargan / Dorgan families and related families were living in East Cork after the earlier parish-register and valuation periods. These records may identify household members, ages, occupations, relationships, literacy, language, religion, buildings, out-offices, land use, and neighboring households.

Research Notes:

Census evidence should be compared with Griffith’s Valuation, valuation-office records, parish registers, civil records, maps, and family photographs. Household groupings and nearby surnames may help connect earlier Carrigkilter families with later Dorgan, Hartnett, Healy, Garde, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, and other East Cork family lines.

Related Families:

Dorgan / Dargan, Hartnett, Healy, Garde, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, Barry, Flynn, Coleman, and other families appearing in nearby households and connected records.

Confidence Level:

Strong household evidence for later generations. Census records are especially useful when compared with land records, parish registers, civil records, maps, and known family relationships.

Evidence Entry 5: Neighboring Families and Surname Clues

Source: Parish registers, Griffith’s Valuation, valuation-office records, census returns, maps, and local family evidence

Townland / Area: Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Ballymacoda, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ladysbridge, Churchtown South, Ballycatoo, and nearby East Cork places

Surname Focus: Dargan / Dorgan and related East Cork surnames

Date Range: 1800s–1900s

Details:

Neighboring families and repeated surnames are important clues in the Carrigkilter study. In East Cork family history, the same surnames may appear across land records, parish registers, census returns, sponsors, witnesses, marriages, and nearby households. These repeated names may help identify relatives, in-laws, neighbors, godparents, witnesses, and community connections.

Research Notes:

Surnames should be compared across different record types before drawing conclusions. A sponsor or witness may be a relative, but may also be a neighbor, friend, employer, tenant, or member of the same parish community. Repeated appearances of the same surnames near Carrigkilter are especially useful when they appear in more than one kind of record.

Related Families:

Flynn, Barry, Motherway, Savage / Lavage, Millerick, Boozane, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, Coleman, Duhig / Doohig, and other nearby East Cork families.

Confidence Level:

Useful supporting evidence. Neighboring families and repeated surnames can suggest connections, but they should be treated as clues until confirmed by multiple records.

Current Research Questions

Current Research Questions

The Carrigkilter evidence collection is still a working research file. The main questions are:

How does Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter connect to the wider Dorgan families of Ballymacoda, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, and nearby East Cork?

How does Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter, tenant of Thomas G. Durdin in Griffith’s Valuation, connect to the later Dorgan branches documented in Cloyne, Rock Street, Providence, Rhode Island, and other American records?

Can the Dargan / Dorgan spelling variations be connected through repeated residences, sponsors, witnesses, land records, and later family evidence?

How do Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn fit into the wider East Cork family network?

Do the Flynn, Barry, Motherway, Savage / Lavage, Millerick, Boozane, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Shinnick, O’Keeffe, Coleman, and Duhig / Doohig names show repeated connections across parish registers, land records, census returns, and maps?

Can Griffith’s Valuation, valuation maps, later valuation-office records, census records, and modern mapping help identify the likely Carrigkilter landholding, house site, neighboring families, and later family connections?

This page will continue to grow as more evidence is transcribed, compared, and connected.

For now, this page should be read as a working research hub rather than a finished family history conclusion.

Return to the East Cork Places Guide to see how Carrigkilter connects with other East Cork locations in the archive.