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Mangan of Shanagolden, Co.Limerick

Locally pronounced "Mang-en" with a soft g.
Outside of Co.Limerick it is often pronounced "Man-gan" with a hard g.

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Estate papers of Mangan landlord.
  • Mangan readings in Kilbradran graveyard inscriptions.

Our Mangan family were of the area of Shanagolden, Co.Limerick.
There are a lot of Mangans in the Shanagolden area.
Our family starts with:

• Denis Mangan,
  [Eilis Guiney] lists him as "Dinny",
  born 1807,
  listed as of Shanagolden at mar,
  then found at Dunmoylan, some distance SE of Shanagolden, Co.Limerick,
  later of Gourbane, just SW of Shanagolden,
  supposed to be some cousin of the poet James Clarence Mangan.

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Loghill, Co.Limerick

Sara Mangan said that Denis Mangan came from Loghill, Co.Limerick, before he married Nolan (in 1828).
She said Mangan was of Loughill House (normally thus spelt), Loghill, Co.Limerick.
Loughill House was later the home of Fitzgerald who married a Mangan in 1888.
Loughill House used to be called "Ouvane House".
However, no evidence of an older link to Mangan has been found.

Denis Mangan apparently came to Dunmoylan through marriage to Nolan (O'Brien widow) in 1828.

There is another Loghill in Rathkeale par, Co.Limerick, between Newcastle West and Rathkeale. See map.

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Miscellaneous Mangans

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Mangan of Parkmore, Shanagolden, Co.Limerick

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The family of the poet James Clarence Mangan

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