Carrigkilter Land Story
The Carrigkilter Land Story follows the land evidence connected to Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and the Dorgan family of East Cork.
This page brings together Valuation Office records, Griffith’s Valuation, map references, landlord records, later land changes, and the 1896 sale of the Carrigkilter farm.
Carrigkilter is important because it places the Dorgan family story on a specific East Cork landscape. Parish registers identify people and family relationships, but land records help show where the family lived, leased land, farmed, and later made decisions that shaped the move from Ireland to the United States.
This page should be read as a land-history companion to the Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter family narrative and the Carrigkilter Research Hub.
Carrigkilter and Ballintemple Parish
Carrigkilter is a townland in Ballintemple Parish, Barony of Imokilly, County Cork. In the Dorgan Family Archive, it is the central place connected to Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in the mid-nineteenth century.
This parish and townland context matters because East Cork records often overlap across nearby places. Carrigkilter should be studied alongside Ballybraher, Churchtown South, Ballycatoo, Ballymacoda, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ladysbridge, Midleton, and other nearby locations.
Correct place identification is essential. Patrick Dargan / Dorgan’s Carrigkilter land evidence belongs to Ballintemple Parish and should not be confused with Garryvoe Lower or with later Dorgan households in Cloyne or Rhode Island.
The 1847 Valuation Office Book
The 1847 Valuation Office Book provides important land evidence for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan before the printed Griffith’s Valuation.
In this record, Patrick Dargan appears in Carrigkilter in connection with land, a house, offices, and valuation notes. This helps show that the family’s connection to the townland was already established before the 1853 printed valuation.
These earlier valuation-office records are especially useful because they may include details not found in the printed valuation, such as property descriptions, tenure notes, information about houses and outbuildings, or nearby occupants.
This record should be compared with the 1853 Griffith’s Valuation entry, Carrigkilter map reference / holding 8, later valuation revision books, parish-register records, and neighboring households.
The 1853 Griffith’s Valuation Record
Griffith’s Valuation provides the strongest mid-nineteenth-century printed land record for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Carrigkilter.
In 1853, Patrick Dargan is recorded as a tenant of Thomas G. Durdin in Carrigkilter, Ballintemple Parish, Barony of Imokilly, Union of Middleton, County Cork.
The record identifies the place as Carrigkilter townland and gives the key map evidence as sheet 89, map reference / holding 8. This is important because it connects the written valuation entry to a specific location on the valuation map.
For the Dorgan Family Archive, this record anchors Patrick Dargan / Dorgan in Carrigkilter after the Great Famine and provides a foundation for comparing later land records, census records, parish-register evidence, and family migration records.
Map Reference 8 and the Carrigkilter Holding
Map reference / holding 8 is one of the most important parts of the Carrigkilter land story.
Griffith’s Valuation identifies Patrick Dargan in Carrigkilter and connects the written valuation entry to sheet 89, map reference / holding 8. This helps move the evidence from a written record to a specific place on the East Cork landscape.
Instead of identifying only a townland, the map reference helps narrow the family story to a particular holding within Carrigkilter. This makes it possible to compare the written valuation entry with maps, later land records, neighboring holdings, roads, townland boundaries, and local family evidence.
The map evidence should always be studied together with the Griffith’s Valuation entry, the 1847 Valuation Office Book, later valuation revision books, parish-register evidence, and neighboring households.
Thomas G. Durdin and the Landlord Connection
In Griffith’s Valuation, Patrick Dargan is recorded as a tenant of Thomas G. Durdin in Carrigkilter.
This landlord connection is important because land records often identify families through landlord, tenant, townland, holding number, and map reference. In Patrick’s case, the Durdin connection helps confirm that the Carrigkilter record belongs to the correct landholding context.
The landlord name should be studied with Griffith’s Valuation, the valuation map, later revision books, and neighboring holdings. This may help show how the Carrigkilter holding changed over time and how the family’s land story fits into the wider Ballintemple and East Cork land network.
The Durdin connection should be treated as part of the land-record evidence, not as proof of family relationship.
The 1896 Sale of the Carrigkilter Farm
The 1896 sale of the Carrigkilter farm marks one of the most important turning points in the Dorgan land story.
A notice in the Cork Examiner reported that the interest in Patrick Dorgan’s farm at Carrigkilter was sold by auction. The holding was described as 27 acres, 1 rood, and 30 perches, situated between Ballycotton and Cloyne. The farm was held in fee simple, subject to payments connected with the Irish Land Commissioners and the Commissioners of Public Works.
The buyer was Mrs. Margaret Curtin of Glanturkin, and the sale price was £142 10s.
This record is important because it shows the transfer of the Carrigkilter holding shortly before Patrick Dorgan left Ireland for the United States. It connects the family’s East Cork landholding story to the later emigration story and helps explain why this branch of the family does not appear in the 1901 Census of Ireland.
From Carrigkilter to Rhode Island
The sale of the Carrigkilter farm helps explain the family’s move from East Cork to the United States.
After the farm sale in 1896, Patrick Dorgan left Ireland for America. Mary Catherine Hartnett Dorgan and the children followed in 1897. This movement changed the family story from a Carrigkilter landholding narrative into an Irish-American family history.
Later records in Providence, Rhode Island, including census records, marriage records, and family documents, continue the story after the family left East Cork.
For this reason, the Carrigkilter land story is not only about property. It is also about migration, family decision-making, economic pressure, and the way one East Cork family branch became part of the wider Irish diaspora.
Why the Land Story Matters
The Carrigkilter land story helps connect several parts of the Dorgan Family Archive.
It links Patrick Dargan / Dorgan to a specific townland, landlord, valuation map reference, farm holding, and later land sale. These records help place the family in the physical landscape rather than only in names and dates.
Land records are especially valuable because they show where families lived, leased land, farmed, and interacted with neighboring households. Parish registers may show baptisms, marriages, sponsors, and witnesses, but valuation records and maps help show where the family was rooted.
For the Dorgan family, Carrigkilter is more than a place name. It is the landholding that connects East Cork parish records, Griffith’s Valuation, the Durdin estate, the 1896 farm sale, and the family’s later move to Rhode Island. This makes Carrigkilter one of the central places in the Dorgan Family Archive.
Related Pages
The main townland research hub for Carrigkilter, Griffith’s Valuation evidence, map reference / holding 8, and the wider family network.
Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter
The main family narrative connecting Patrick to Carrigkilter land records, parish records, Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn, 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, children’s records, and burial evidence.
The main records page for parish registers, land records, Griffith’s Valuation, maps, census records, emigration records, photographs, and other evidence used throughout the archive.
The main guide to townlands, parishes, villages, and local reference points connected to the Dorgan / Dargan family network.