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How sure are you that it's the correct Patrick Mulligan death cert?

He passed away just before before my mother was born; her birthday was April 12th, 1941. Plus his address at his time of death was where he’d lived and worked since the mid 1930s. My grandparents, Patrick Brennan and Mary Catherine, lived in 276 Harolds Cross Road until about 1940, when they moved into the married quarters at Cathal Bruagh barracks where my grandfather was stationed.

I’ve managed to trace back as far as Patrick’s parents; James Mulligan and Catherine Keely. After that, things get hazy. Someone helped with some research a while back, and said that they’d found siblings for my great grandfather Patrick; Anne, Catherine, John and William.

Margaret’s father is named as Patrick on her marriage certificate, yet there’s also someone by the name of Simon Mahon that pops up in searches.

I’m trying to find out more about my maternal grandparents; my grandmother’s name was Mary Catherine Mulligan(married surname Brennan). She was born on May 9th, 1910, in Harolds Cross. She had a sister, Anne, and from what I’ve discovered so far, three brothers. Her brother, Patrick, died when he was six, of Potts Disease. Her other brothers were named John and James, but I can’t trace them. Mary died on January 23rd, 1962.

Her father’s name was Patrick Michael Mulligan. And this is where the fun starts. When Patrick died on April 2nd, 1941, his age was given as 49 years old. However, his year of birth has been given as 1878, which doesn’t make sense at all.This has thrown my search for the Mulligan line way off.

Mary’s mother was Margaret Mahon. She was born on November 18th, 1881 in Roebuck. Her date of death was given to me as October 30th, 1924, but again, I can’t verify it.

I do know that Patrick and Margaret lived in 274 Harolds Cross Road. It was a dairy, and Patrick worked there as a Groom. They’d lived in other addresses in the area, and their other daughter was born in Roebuck.

If anyone could help me untangle this mess, I would be very grateful.

Quote from: Sinann on Thursday 03 October 24 22:29 BST (UK)

Is this Patrick in 1911 and his marriage in 1908

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1908/10056/5657492.pdf

http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_West/Harold_s_Cross_Road/67041/

Did you look at these, are they your Patrick and Margaret?

That's my great grandparents. 

My great uncle Patrick Mulligan died in 1918 at the age of six from Pott's Disease. My grandmother, Mary, had one sister(Anne), and two surviving brothers(John and James). They lived in and around the Harolds Cross area, with my great grandfather Mulligan working for Byrne's Dairy at 274 Harolds Cross Road. The building is still there, but it's now an Indian take away with a print shop where the stables were.

I've hit a brick wall with my great grandfather Mulligan's line, although I managed to trace the Brennan line back to Dublin in 1744.