Patrick Cahan (1670 - aft. 1749)

Born 1670 in Glinsk, County Galway, Ireland

Descendants

Died after 1749 after age 79 in Glinsk, County Galway, Ireland

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Biography

Patrick was born about 1670. In the Elphin Doicesan Cencus of 1749, he appears as Patt Cane and wife, C (Catholic), gardener, nil children at home, Glynsk, Ballynakill Parish. His nearest neighbours include six Cahan men living in Keelogesbeg Townland, Glinsk, possibly the grown sons of Patrick, with their wives and children.

Sources

• Elphin Diocesan Cencus

Ó Catháin Clan timeline

The dinnseanchas poem named Ard Ruide (Ruide Headland) describes the five kingdoms of Ireland. Connacht was described thus (translated into English: Connacht in the west is the kingdom of learning, the seat of the greatest and wisest druids and magicians; the men of Connachta re renowned for their eloquence, their handsomeness and their ability to pronounce true judgement.

938 The Coenraige Ardrahan under O'Maghna led the Ui Fiachra Aidhne clans (including Ó Catháin) to victory over a Viking army at Raheen, Co Galway.

980 Eoghain Ua Catháin, Abbot of Cluain-fearta-Brenainn, rested in Christ. (Annals of the Four Masters).

1014 O’Kelly, Prince of Ui Maine, and O hEidhin, Lord of Ui Fiachra Aidhne, led their clans in the Battle of Clontarf where both died and the Connaught contingent suffered heavily.

1229 Gerald Ó Catháin, most learned man in the Order of Canons, died. (Annala Connachta).

1237 Anglo-Norman invasion of Connaught.

1307 MacDavid Burkes moved to Glinsk with O’Cahans in their employ.

1411 Richard O’Cathan held the Vicarage of the Parish Church of St Hierlatheus (St Jarlath) in Tuam Parish.

1585 Irish Fiants of Elizabeth I: Kon Roe O'Kahan , Shanganagh, Galway (in Aidhne?) 4707; Teig Reagh O’Cahan, kern, Kilcroan, Co Galway, 4779; Tho. O’Cahan, kern, Kilcroan, Co Galway, 4779.

1594 Gilleduffe O’Cahan held the Vicarage of Moylough, Diocese of Tuam, until 1594.

1603 Pardons of James I [Calendar of the Patent Rolls of the Chancery of Ireland (Dublin 1800)], Patent Roll 1, James I, Part 3: Donnell Carragh O’Cahan, Lavallyconnor, Killeely, Co Galway, p.18 Teige O’Cahan, Montiagh, Claregalway, Co Galway, p.19.

1612 Roger O'Cane, born ca. 1612 Galway, died ca. 1687-1688, Somerset, Maryland.

1689-1691 Regiments of King James' Irish Army included four with a Burke and/or Galway origin: Regiment of Clanricarde (Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde). Two Birminghams from Dunmore served as officers in this regiment. Regiment of Lord Galway (raised by Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway, a brother of the following.) Regiment of Lord Bophin (raised by John Burke, 1st Baron Bophin, later 9th Earl of Clanrickard) Regiment of Colonel Walter Bourke (likely raised out of Dillon's, 1689) Regiment of Colonel Dominick Browne (of Galway).

1690s "After the capitulation of Limerick, Lord Iveagh [Brian MacGuinness, 2nd Viscount Iveagh] brought over a body of the expatriated soldiers to France, who were sent thence, as mentioned before, under the command of Colonel McDonnell for the service of the emperor of Austria in Hungary. He employed them against the Turks, by whom they were so severely handled, that the remnant were drafted into other corps of the Imperial army. Of these suffering Irish refugees were two O’Cahanes, whose petition to King William, "that they, being sick, might safely repair to Ireland, their natural soil", have been noted as in the Southwell Manuscripts." D'alton: King James' Irish Army List.

The Regiment of Lord Iveagh was more likely formed when the peace of Ryswick in 1697 saw the Irish Brigade in France greatly reduced in number, at which time Lord Iveagh recruited these veterans for service in Hungary. Lord Iveagh was killed in 1703 and his men drafted into other units. [Dixon Family History]

1740 Galway County Assizes, Summer Assizes. John Cahan listed amongst persons transported to the Americas.

1749 Elphin Diocesan Cencus records include O'Cahans from the NE Galway part of Elphin Diocese.

1786 Joseph C. Walker in Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786) mentions Eugene O’Cahan, sculptor, of Dunmore Parish.