Re: the spelling cogan
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In reply to:
the spelling cogan
7/23/00
Here is what we have.We put out another book on our family 1970-1994 and one family member wrote this about "Coogan."Actually, now that I read it, it is about whether Coogan is Norman or Gaelic.Anyway, here it is:
The Coogan Croinic (our book)(1970) detailed the heroism of the Norman warrior Milo DeCogan and his brother Richard in 1179-1181 A.D.These DeCogans were a powerful force in County Cork in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries.Then there was no longer any mention of them.However, John O'Hart in his Irish Pedigrees of the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (1915), described the Coogans as Gaelic and as collateral descendants of Murtough Mor MacEarca, a famous Gaelic chieftain.Among these descedents, O'Hart listed Edalach, whose older brother was Cuaghan, anglicized to Coogan, Cogan, and Coggan (1:391, #94).Also, later in the eighteenth century The Dublin Journal mentioned Coogans in County Carlow.One of the most prominent present day Coogans is Tim Pat Coogan, the essayist and editor of The Irish Press born in Dublin in 1939.(By Robert E. Ward, research author in his own right.)