Cornelius Coughlan in Buttevant

Hi James, welcome to Ireland Reaching Out, my name is AnneMarie and I am the parish liaison for both Buttevant and Churchtown.

I do need to advise you that the church records for Buttevant are only available from 1814 onwards for baptism  records and from 1820 onwards for marriage records. For Churchtown this is 1812 for baptisms and  from 1813 onwards for marriage records. Civil registration did not start till 1864 in Ireland

First of all I like to mention that there are still many Coughlan families living in the two villages, who knows maybe related to you.

I will do some digging through the archives today and see what I can find for you,

Regards,

Anne Marie

James, bad news no records to be found, more then likely the churchbooks from that period are missing or incomplete, probably also the reason why The Mallow Heritage center was only able to find the marriage of Thomas, I was able to find this too but nothing else.

I had a look at Griffiths valuation for Buttevant and Churchtown and found a record stating that a Timothy Coghlan was a tenant of Mary Coleman, this Timothy lived in Main Street in Buttevant in 1851, so clearly not your Timothy but worth mentioning I think. A Maurice Coghlan was also living in Main Street Buttevant but renting from the Viscount Doneraile

You can find all 23 Coghlan families living in Buttevant between 1848 and 1864 here http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=47&Submit.y=12&Submit=Submit&familyname=coghlan&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=CORK&unionname=&parishname=BUTTEVANT

And the Churchtown Coghlans here http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=12&Submit.y=14&Submit=Submit&familyname=coghlan&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=CORK&unionname=&parishname=CHURCHTOWN

Hope this helps a little sorry I was not able to find more,

Anne Marie

Hi, since you mention Cornelius Coghlan died in 1863, I was wondering if you discovered what happened to him. He went missing in October, 1861 after selling some pigs for 25 pounds. Up to seven people were held during an investigation. I wonder if 1863 was the year he was declared dead or maybe he showed up and later died.

Originally, I thought I posted this in the Buttevant parish board. Not sure why it's here in Kilcar. My apologies. 

Jim,

I read the article about Cornelius Coughlan in the October 16, 1861 Cork Examiner. That's not my distant great-great-great grandfather. My Cornelius died in Illinois in 1863. He emigrated to the USA around 1848-1850. I have no record of him returning to Ireland.

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1861/OCT.html

Ah, got it. Interesting this Cornelius was a pig farmer and a few years later there was another pig farmer mentioned in the same papers based in Buttevant named Tim Coghlan or Coughlan. My great great grandfather Morris Coughlan was from Castlelyons, right next to Fermoy and about 25 miles from Buttevant.
Good luck.

Jim,

Interesting. My Cornelius married Mary Coleman who we believe is from Fermoy. I don't have any information about Mary's family in Ireland. I wouldn't be surprised if our Coughlin lines match at some point.