Carrigkilter Research Hub
Carrigkilter is the central townland research hub for the Dorgan / Dargan family archive. It is the main place connected with Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Griffith’s Valuation and related East Cork land evidence.
This page brings together townland context, valuation records, map evidence, parish-register clues, neighboring places, related families, and research notes connected to Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Ballintemple, Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, Cloyne, and the wider East Cork family network.
Carrigkilter is treated as the anchor place for the known Patrick Dargan / Dorgan land evidence. Other nearby Dorgan / Dargan records, including Garryvoe, Kilmacahill, Cloyne, and Rock Street records, are compared carefully but are not automatically merged with the Carrigkilter family unless stronger evidence supports the connection.
Why Carrigkilter Matters
Carrigkilter matters because it provides a fixed East Cork place for studying Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and the wider family network.
The 1853 Griffith’s Valuation entry places Patrick Dargan in Carrigkilter, civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Imokilly, Poor Law Union of Middleton, County Cork. The related valuation map identifies the holding by map reference / plot 8.
This land evidence gives the archive an important geographic anchor. It helps connect Patrick Dargan / Dorgan to nearby places, parish-register entries, sponsors, witnesses, neighbors, maps, family traditions, and later Dorgan / Dargan research.
Carrigkilter should not be confused with Garryvoe Lower. Patrick Dargan / Dorgan’s Griffith’s Valuation evidence belongs to Carrigkilter.
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.
This study focuses on:
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 Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Carrigkilter and help compare possible related Dorgan / Dargan families in 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, community ties, sponsors, witnesses, and possible family connections.
Earlier Land History
1667 William Penn Land Grant
This 1667 land-grant record lists lands granted to Sir William Penn, including Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Shanagarry, and other East Cork townlands. Although this record is much earlier than the known Dorgan / Dargan family records, it helps place Carrigkilter within a longer landholding history.
For the Dorgan archive, this record is useful background evidence. It shows that Carrigkilter and nearby townlands were part of documented East Cork land transactions long before Patrick Dargan / Dorgan appears in nineteenth-century valuation and parish records.
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Related Carrigkilter Records
These records connect Carrigkilter to the Patrick Dargan / Dorgan family line and help anchor the family in the East Cork landscape.
1847 Patrick Dargan / Dorgan Land Assessment
This Valuation Office Book record provides early land evidence for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Carrigkilter before the printed Griffith’s Valuation.
1853 Patrick Dargan / Dorgan Griffith’s Valuation
This record anchors Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Carrigkilter in the mid-nineteenth century and connects the family to Griffith’s Valuation holding / plot 8.
1853 Carrigkilter Griffith’s Valuation Map
This map reference connects the written Griffith’s Valuation entry to a specific Carrigkilter holding and helps place the Dorgan family within the local landscape.
These records should be read together with parish-register entries, later census records, cemetery evidence, and neighboring family names.
Carrigkilter Evidence List
The following records and research notes relate to Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter, the Carrigkilter landholding evidence, and possible related Dargan / Dorgan families in the wider East Cork area. 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.
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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.
Related Pages
Records Archive
The main evidence center for census records, parish registers, land records, maps, photographs, record images, and research notes used throughout the archive.
Carrigkilter Land Story
A focused page about valuation records, Griffith’s Valuation, map reference / holding 8, the Carrigkilter landholding, and the later farm sale.
Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter
The main family narrative for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan, his records, family connections, and later descendants.
Johanna / Anne Flynn Dorgan of East Cork
A companion narrative focused on Patrick’s wife, her name variants, possible Flynn origins, burial evidence, and maternal-family connections.
The Great Famine
Historical context for East Cork, Carrigkilter, and the world of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn.
Ballybraher
A neighboring townland context page for Carrigkilter, Ballintemple, parish-register geography, maps, land records, roads, neighboring families, and local-place clues.
Ballymacoda
A parish-register context page for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan, Johanna / Anne Flynn, their children, Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge baptisms, sponsors, witnesses, neighboring families, and related East Cork places.
Cloyne: Parish and Market-Town Reference Point
A parish, market-town, civil, Rock Street, and East Cork family-network context page connected to Dorgan / Dargan records, Michael Dorgan, Johanna Garde, Kilmacahill clues, census evidence, and later family branches.
Kilmacahill
A research-context page for Edmond Dargan / Dorgan / Dargin, Kilmacahill valuation and burial evidence, possible earlier-generation clues, maps, cemetery evidence, and the wider East Cork Dorgan / Dargan family network.
Garryvoe Lower
A focused coastal land-record page useful for comparing Garryvoe Lower Dorgan / Dargan evidence with the proven Carrigkilter line, while keeping the two places and families carefully distinguished.
Ballycotton and Garryvoe
A coastal East Cork place page connecting Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ballyandreen, Aghada, Cloyne, Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, maps, photographs, Griffith’s Valuation, land records, and related family evidence.
East Cork Places Guide
The main guide to the East Cork places used throughout the archive.
Photos & Pictures Gallery
The visual-evidence center for family photographs, maps, cemetery images, record images, unidentified photos, and place evidence.
Contact
Use this page to share corrections, records, photographs, family stories, place knowledge, or photo identifications.
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.