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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Antrim => Ireland => Antrim Completed Look up Requests => Topic started by: arcmorality on Saturday 02 June 12 17:00 BST (UK)
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Hello folks,
Been sitting on this one for awhile, but really need some help in deciphering what the place name is on the fourth line down. I believe the line below it is County of Antrim.
Its from a Scottish 1855 birth record, so I got lucky.
The rest of it says..
Patrick McGrogan
Coal Miner
32 Years
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County of Antrim
Thank you.
Nicky
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Just popping in to say hello and welcome :))
Ive been looking at place names in Antrim,up to now no luck .
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Thank you hepburn :) Been lurking awhile, this forum has been a great resource.
Yes I have tried to compare it to a list of places in Antrim. The best I could come up with that its been spelt incorrectly. Patrick McGrogan was Irish and illiterate so the registrar probably wrote down what he thought he heard. It looks as if he hesitated halfway through writing the place name.
Best we could come up with is Culfeightrin.
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I never was any good at deciphering , you sound as bad as me ...... ;)
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It looks like it starts with 'Cal' to me.
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Deciphering has never been a strong point of mine! ;D
I was looking at Cul or Cal with the last two letters being in
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Hi Nicky,
Don't know if this will help or just confuse matters further but ... there's a couple of places in NI called Culkeeran, but they aren't in Antrim. Don't know if the borders could have changed since then :-\ but I thought the similarity was worth mentioning.
Adrianne
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There is a townland called Coolkeeran in Antrim. In the civil parish of Loughguile. Details here: http://www.thecore.com/seanruad
The Irish word 'cúl' is sometimes anglicised as 'cool' explaining the spelling issue at the start of the name.
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It looks to me like Calkaaren / Calkaarin.
remember, being Ireland, it might be the name of a townland, not necessarily a town per se.
Dawn M
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There is a Griffith's Valuation listing for a Daniel McGrogan living in the townland of Coolkeeran. There is unlikely to be a double a in the middle of this placename. There is only one townland in Antrim where the spelling includes 'aa.'
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There is also a Bridget McGrogan in Coolkeerin(Ballyhoe Antrim) in the 1901 census.
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There is a Griffith's Valuation listing for a Daniel McGrogan living in the townland of Coolkeeran. There is unlikely to be a double a in the middle of this placename. There is only one townland in Antrim where the spelling includes 'aa.'
Thank you so much Sonas I think you may be on to something! I never did find a death cert for Patrick McGrogan in Scotland, I know he died between 1860-1870. Have just found a death that may be him in Ballymoney in 1867, now need to order a photocopy from the GRO to confirm.
Thanks for all your help.
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Ballymoney is the registration district- Coolkeeran is in this district.
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Cabragh?
There is a Cabragh in Ballymoney and also one in Kirkinriola
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Doesn't look at all like Cabragh and think Coolkeeran is most likely to be the correct place.