Cloyne Parish and East Cork Context Map

This map helps place Cloyne within the wider East Cork landscape. Cloyne is an important parish and market-town reference point for comparing Dorgan, Dargan, Flynn, Hartnett, Healy, Barry, Garde, Cashman, Motherway, and related family records across parish registers, land records, maps, roads, nearby townlands, and neighboring communities.

Why Cloyne Matters

Cloyne matters because it connects several important parts of the archive.

It provides parish and civil context for Dorgan / Dargan records, marriage records, later census evidence, Rock Street household evidence, and related family branches. Cloyne also helps place nearby locations such as Kilmacahill, Ballybraher, Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, Garryvoe, Ballycotton, and Carrigkilter within a wider East Cork network.

The Cloyne evidence is especially important for the family of Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde, including their Rock Street household and later Cloyne records. This branch must be carefully distinguished from the earlier Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter, even where names repeat.

Cloyne in Family Records

Cloyne appears in the archive in several different ways. Some records refer to Cloyne as a parish or church setting, while others connect families to the town of Cloyne, Rock Street, nearby civil-registration districts, or surrounding East Cork communities.

For the Dorgan family, Cloyne is especially important because it helps connect the Carrigkilter family line to later records involving Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde. Their family appears in Cloyne-area records and helps show how the Dorgan story moved from townland and land records into later parish, civil, census, and household evidence.

Cloyne also helps connect related families and surnames, including Hartnett, Healy, Barry, Beausang, Shinnick, Flynn, Garde, Millerick, and O’Keeffe. These surnames appear across parish records, marriage records, census records, sponsor networks, and family branches connected to the wider East Cork area.

Rock Street, Cloyne.

Rock Street, Cloyne, is an important later reference point in the Dorgan Family Archive. It helps connect the older Carrigkilter and Ballymacoda-area family evidence to a later Cloyne household connected with Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde.

The Rock Street records are especially useful because they show the family in a town setting, not only in rural townland and valuation records. This helps broaden the family story from landholding and parish-register evidence to later census, household, business, and community context.

For this archive, Rock Street helps connect Cloyne to the wider Dorgan / Dargan family network, including later records for Johanna Garde Dorgan, Patrick Dorgan, Mary Eliza Dorgan, Helena Dorgan, and related family members.

Nearby Places Connected to Cloyne.

Cloyne should be read together with nearby East Cork places rather than as an isolated location. The family records often connect Cloyne to surrounding townlands, parishes, villages, and coastal communities.

Carrigkilter and Ballybraher help connect the Dorgan / Dargan family to land records, valuation evidence, and the Ballintemple-area landscape.

Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ballymacoda, and Ladysbridge help place the family within nearby coastal, parish, cemetery, and civil-record networks.

Churchtown South and Ballycatoo help connect Cloyne to the Ballintemple-area records and related family networks.

Midleton provides an important civil, market-town, and registration context for records connected to the wider East Cork region.

Related Families and Surnames

Cloyne is important because it brings together many of the surnames that appear throughout the Dorgan Family Archive. These names may appear in parish registers, marriage records, sponsor and witness networks, census records, civil records, land records, cemetery records, and later family branches.

The Dorgan and Dargan families are the central focus, but Cloyne also helps connect related East Cork families such as Flynn, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Barry, Beausang, Shinnick, Millerick, O’Keeffe, and others.

These surnames should be studied together because East Cork families often appear repeatedly as neighbors, marriage partners, baptism sponsors, witnesses, tenants, shopkeepers, farmers, and relatives. Cloyne provides one of the key reference points for tracing those connections across generations.

Related Cloyne Records

These records help connect Cloyne to the wider Dorgan / Dargan family story in East Cork.

1869 Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde Marriage

Related family branch: Read Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde of Cloyne

This Cloyne parish marriage record helps confirm Michael Dorgan as a son of Patrick Dorgan and Johanna Flynn. It connects the Carrigkilter Dorgan family to Johanna Garde and the later Cloyne branch.

1886 Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett Marriage

This Cloyne parish marriage record connects Patrick Dorgan of the Carrigkilter family line with Mary Catherine Hartnett. It helps link the Dorgan, Hartnett, and Duhig / Doohig family networks in East Cork.

Read Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett

1901 Johanna Garde Dorgan and Patrick Dorgan Census — Rock Street, Cloyne

This census record documents the younger Patrick Dorgan of Cloyne in the household of his widowed mother Johanna Garde Dorgan. It helps separate the younger Patrick of Cloyne from the earlier Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter.

1911 Johanna Garde Dorgan and Patrick Dorgan Census — Cloyne

This census record continues the Cloyne branch of the Dorgan family and helps trace the family of Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde after the 1901 Rock Street household.

These records should be read together with parish-register entries, land records, Carrigkilter evidence, census records, and related Cloyne family names including Garde, Hartnett, Duhig / Doohig, Millerick, and others.

Research Cautions and Open Questions

This Cloyne page should be read as a guide to place context, not as a finished proof of every family relationship. Cloyne appears in many different kinds of records, and the same person or family may be described by parish, town, townland, street, civil district, or nearby place name.

Care should be taken when connecting people with the same or similar names. Dorgan and Dargan spellings may vary across records, and related surnames may appear in different forms. A Cloyne reference in one record should be compared with parish registers, census records, civil records, land records, sponsor names, witnesses, cemetery evidence, and family tradition.

Open questions remain about how every Cloyne-area Dorgan, Dargan, Flynn, Hartnett, Garde, Healy, Barry, Beausang, Shinnick, Millerick, and O’Keeffe record fits into the wider East Cork family network. This page can be expanded as more evidence is reviewed and connected.

Related Pages

East Cork Places Guide — the main overview page for townlands, parishes, villages, and local reference points used throughout the archive.

Ballycotton and Garryvoe
Coastal East Cork place page connecting Ballycotton, Garryvoe, Ballyandreen, Aghada, Cloyne, Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, maps, photographs, Griffith’s Valuation, land records, and related family evidence.

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.

Garryvoe Lower
A focused coastal place page connected to John Dorgan of Garryvoe Lower, Garryvoe valuation evidence, Ballycotton, Ballymacoda, Cloyne, maps, and possible related Dorgan / Dargan branches.

Carrigkilter Research Hub — the flagship townland research page for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan, Griffith’s Valuation holding / plot 8, and the Carrigkilter family evidence.

Churchtown South and Ballycatoo
A Ballintemple-area place page connecting Churchtown South, Ballycatoo, Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Cloyne, Kilmacahill, parish-register evidence, valuation records, maps, photographs, neighboring families, and local-place clues.

Midleton and Ladysbridge
A civil, parish, market-town, road, and movement-context page connecting Midleton, Ladysbridge, Ballymacoda, Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Garryvoe, parish-register evidence, civil records, maps, roads, markets, and family movement.

Aghada
An early parish-register and Flynn-family context page connected to Ballyandreen, Ballycotton, Cloyne, Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, and related East Cork family research.

Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter — the main family narrative connecting Patrick to Carrigkilter land records, parish records, 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.

Cloyne Branch: Michael Dorgan and Johanna Garde

The shorter branch overview page connecting Michael Dorgan, Johanna Garde, Rock Street, Cloyne census records, and the later Cloyne family line.