1845, John Coughlan of Crookhaven, West Cork Owner of Whaler ‘The Wild Irish Girl’ Rescues Schooner  British America (Canada) ‘Exile’. Somewhat surprising to see a whaler operating out of Crookhaven.  The extended Coughlan/Coghlan family were active mariners, Royal Navy personnel.

 

1700, Dives Downes on Kilmoe (Ballydehob/Schull/Crookhaven), West Cork, Lands Recently Forfeit by Coppinger and O’Mahony now Hull, Bishop of Cork, Colonel Beecher, Earl of Cork, in Crookhaven, Arthur Hyde, Thadeus Coghlan/Coughlan, Rectories College of Youghal control Wrested from Earl of Cork by Lord Strafford, Old Chapel at Kilkanget near Dunmanus Castle, In O’Sullivan Country Universally Observed as Festival St Roan’s Day, Tithes on Fishing, later Rev. Fisher, Teampall na mBocht.

 

Geneaolgy of Arnopp family in Dunmanway, Crookhaven and Kinsale, Co. Cork from 1666, related to Hulls of Leamcon, Evansons of Durrus, Coughlans of Crookhaven

 

Case in Cork Assizes 1844 arising from Lands at Carrigmanus of Charles Coughlan Great Grand Father of Ann Jagoe and Alice Dowe, His Son Richard Married Miss Driscoll 1768 and made a Settlement. Litigation over Validity and Provenance of Wills. Names mentioned O’Sullivan, Notter, Simms, Young

 

Will Captain Jeremiah Coughlan, Royal Navy, 1796-1815, of Carrigmanus, Schull, West Cork Family and William Marcus Coughlan 1884, Proved Canterbury.

 

Case of disputed Glebe Lands at Crookhaven, West Cork c 1723, by Rector, Dr. Limerick, referes to Genealogy of Thadues Coughlan, his son Rev Dermitius Coughlan who fled 1641 from Cromwell his great grandson Jeremy (Jeremiah) Attorney and Irish Agent to Burlington Estate, on the road from Schull to Crookhaven ‘nor a bed a man can lie on nor a morsel to be eaten’, Henry Becher’s Fishing palace 1641, Captain William Hull with the wooden leg, Darby Mahony agent to Sir Richard Hull, Donagh McWilliam Coughlan proctor to Rev Thadeus Coughlan, Benjamin Sullivan Attorney Cork and East India Company Connections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cork Examiner 01 February 1847