Carrigkilter founding family:
Patrick Dargan/Dorgan and Johanna Flynn
Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn form the earliest securely documented family group at the center of the Carrigkilter Dorgan line. Their known or strongly supported children are Daniel, Mary, Elizabeth, Timothy, David D., Michael, and Patrick J. Dorgan.
The baptisms of Daniel, Mary, Elizabeth, Timothy, and David provide the strongest early parish-register evidence for the family. Michael and Patrick J. are connected to the same parents through later marriage records, even though their baptisms have not yet been securely identified.
These children carried the family story into several later branches. Mary’s marriage to Jeremiah Healy established the Healy connection; Michael’s marriage to Johanna Garde led to the later Cloyne and Rock Street branch; and Patrick J. Dorgan’s marriage to Mary Catherine Hartnett and subsequent emigration carried the Carrigkilter line to Rhode Island.
This page separates confirmed family evidence from candidate records and nearby Dargan / Dorgan households whose relationship to Patrick remains under investigation.
Johanna Flynn's origins
1817 — Johanna Flynn baptism
Evidence status: Candidate
A Catholic baptism dated 17 November 1817 in the Aghada / Ballyandreen / Ballycotton area records a Johanna Flynn. The sponsors were William Kirby and Johanna Gorman. This record is geographically and chronologically plausible for the woman later known as Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn, wife of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan.
The record is important because it may connect Johanna to the wider Flynn, Barry, Kirby, and Gorman network in East Cork. However, no evidence yet proves that the girl baptized in 1817 is the same Johanna Flynn who later lived with Patrick at Carrigkilter.
Until a marriage record, family relationship, land record, or other independent evidence establishes that connection, the 1817 baptism should remain a strong candidate rather than a confirmed ancestral record.
Children of Patrick and Johanna, 1838–1846
1838 — Daniel Dargan/Dorgan baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record
Daniel was baptized 18 December 1838 in the Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge parish area, son of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn. His sponsors were John Motherway and Bridget Barry.
Why it matters: Daniel is the earliest presently documented child of Patrick and Johanna. His sponsors provide important clues to the Motherway and Barry families appearing around the Carrigkilter network.
1840 — Mary Dorgan baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record
Mary was baptized in May 1840 in the Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge parish area, daughter of Patrick Dorgan and Johanna Flynn. Her sponsors were Daniel Dorgan and Eliza Flynn.
Why it matters: The sponsor Daniel Dorgan was an adult and therefore cannot have been Mary’s brother Daniel, who was only about seventeen months old. This makes the older Daniel Dorgan one of the most important clues in the search for Patrick’s earlier family—possibly a father, brother, uncle, or other close relative.
1842 — Elizabeth Dargan/Dorgan baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record
Elizabeth was baptized 11 February 1842. Her parents were Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Nancy Flynn, and her sponsors were Patrick Savage and Bridget Savage.
Why it matters: This record is especially valuable because Johanna appears under the name Nancy, helping demonstrate the documented variation in her given name across family records. It also reinforces the family’s Carrigkilter / Ballybraher setting.
1844 — Timothy Dargan/Dorgan baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record
Timothy was baptized 18 February 1844 in the Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge parish area. His sponsors were Ned Millerick and Mary Boozane.
Why it matters: The Millerick and Boozane sponsor names add to the network of families repeatedly associated with Patrick and Johanna’s household and may help identify relatives, in-laws, or close neighbors when compared with other parish and land records.
1846 — David Dorgan baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record
David D. Dorgan was baptized 8 January 1846 in Ballymacoda and Ladysbridge parish, son of Patrick Dorgan and Nancy Flynn.
Why it matters: This baptism extends the confirmed child sequence through 1846 and again shows Johanna recorded as Nancy Flynn. It also places the family firmly in the parish-register record just before Patrick appears in Carrigkilter valuation records from 1847 onward.
Michael Dargan / Dorgan
Evidence status: Confirmed by later marriage record
Michael Dorgan is securely connected to Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn through his marriage to Johanna Garde on 26 January 1869 in Cloyne. His baptism has not yet been firmly identified.
Why it matters: Michael provides an important bridge from the Carrigkilter founding family to the later Cloyne and Rock Street branch. His marriage record confirms his place in Patrick and Johanna’s family even without a located baptism.
Patrick J. Dorgan
Evidence status: Confirmed by later marriage record
Patrick J. Dorgan is securely connected to the Carrigkilter family through his marriage to Mary Catherine Hartnett on 26 November 1886 in Cloyne. That record identifies his father as Patrick Dorgan, deceased.
Why it matters: Patrick J. carries the Carrigkilter line into the later Hartnett connection and, after emigration, into the Rhode Island branch. His baptism has not yet been securely identified, so his place in the family rests on later records rather than a located baptism entry.
Carrigkilter land evidence, 1847–1853
1847 — Valuation Office Tenure Book
Evidence status: Confirmed
Patrick Dargan is recorded at Carrigkilter in the 1847 Valuation Office Tenure Book for Ballintemple civil parish, Barony of Imokilly. This is the earliest securely documented land record presently connecting Patrick with Carrigkilter.
Why it matters: The record establishes Patrick in Carrigkilter before Griffith’s Valuation and provides an important fixed point for comparing nearby Dargan / Dorgan households and possible earlier relatives.
1848 — House Book
Evidence status: Confirmed
A Carrigkilter House Book dated 25 April 1848 records Patrick Dargan’s holding and includes a reference to a “piggery and cow house.”
Why it matters: This record adds physical detail to the family holding and strengthens the continuous Carrigkilter land sequence immediately before Griffith’s Valuation.
1853 — Griffith’s Valuation
Evidence status: Confirmed core land evidence
Griffith’s Valuation records Patrick Dargan at Carrigkilter, Ballintemple civil parish, Barony of Imokilly, with Thomas G. Durdin as immediate lessor.
Why it matters: This is one of the principal anchor records for the Carrigkilter family and confirms Patrick’s occupation of house, offices, and agricultural land.
1853 — Griffith’s Valuation Map
Evidence status: Confirmed map and location evidence
The associated valuation map places the Carrigkilter holding at map reference 8 on Ordnance Survey Sheet 89.
Why it matters: The map connects Patrick’s written valuation entry to a specific physical holding in the Carrigkilter landscape.
These records may belong to relatives or collateral branches of the Carrigkilter family, but no direct relationship to Patrick Dargan / Dorgan has yet been proved. They are preserved here because they provide important people, places, and naming clues for comparison.
Evidence status: Comparison
Edmond Dargan / Dorgan of the Kilmacahill area married Mary Cusack in 1836. Their household is an important nearby Dorgan branch, but that marriage is too late for Edmond and Mary as a couple to have been Patrick’s parents, since Patrick was already the father of Daniel by 1838.
Research note: Edmond could theoretically have had an earlier wife, but no evidence for such a marriage has yet been found.
1846 — William Dargan Land Assessment
Evidence status: Comparison
William Dargan appears in an East Cork land assessment predating Griffith’s Valuation. The record is worth preserving because of its date and proximity, but no family relationship to Patrick has yet been established.
Evidence status: Important comparison record
Daniel Dorgan appears in Griffith’s Valuation in the Garryvoe area. His identity is especially important because an adult Daniel Dorgan sponsored Mary Dorgan’s baptism in 1840. That sponsor cannot have been Patrick and Johanna’s infant son Daniel.
Research note: Daniel is currently one of the strongest candidates for a close relationship to Patrick—possibly father, brother, uncle, or another relative—but the exact relationship remains unproved.
Evidence status: Comparison
An adult John Dorgan appears in Griffith’s Valuation at Garryvoe Lower. He belongs to the nearby East Cork Dorgan network, but no evidence currently proves that he was Patrick’s brother or another specific relative.
Research note: He should not automatically be identified with Edmond Dorgan and Mary Cusack’s son John, baptized in 1839, because that John would have been too young to account for the earlier adult valuation evidence.
These collections preserve supporting evidence, historical context, and comparison material that may help explain the wider Dorgan / Dargan network around Carrigkilter. Some items relate directly to the documented family; others remain contextual or unproved and should be read with their individual research notes.
Land and Place Context
Books of Survey and Distribution — Ballintemple, Barony of Imokilly
Evidence status: Place context
This earlier land source helps establish the civil-parish and barony setting around Carrigkilter before the nineteenth-century valuation sequence. It provides useful historical context but does not directly identify Patrick Dargan / Dorgan or prove a family relationship.
Cemetery records
Ballymacoda Hill Cemetery — sketch plan · aerial view
These records help locate and interpret early Dorgan / Dargan burials and monuments associated with the Ballymacoda area, including Timothy Dorgan, Johanna Dorgan, Mary Dorgan, and Edmond Dorgan of Kilmacahill.
The Johanna Dorgan headstone is badly weathered and should be used primarily as cemetery-location evidence unless the inscription can be independently confirmed.
Research narratives
The Great Famine — historical context for Carrigkilter and East Cork
Early Dorgans in East Cork — comparison evidence for earlier and nearby Dorgan / Dargan families.
The Journey from East Cork to Rhode Island — follows the later family migration story.
Dorgan Transportations to Australia — preserves unproved transportation records for comparison.
Many records in this archive connect the Dorgan / Dargan family with Flynn, Hartnett, Garde, Millerick, Healy, O’Keeffe, Duhig / Doohig, and other East Cork families. See the Family Branches page for a guide to those documented and possible connections.