The Fitzpatricks of Gorteen and Coolcashin

Among Carrigan’s Manuscripts are his notes on several Fitzpatrick families of Co. Laois and Co. Kilkenny, not obviously connected with the Barons of Upper Ossory, which include seventeenth to early twentieth nineteenth century facts, narratives and genealogies unavailable elsewhere. Volume 73, is titled ‘Extracts from Wills, Castlecomber etc’ but this does not fully describe the contents, which provide much useful information on the Fitzpatricks of Gurteen and Coolcashin. Volume 45 has the title ‘Durrow and Aghaboe’ but this also belies what lies within the black-backed book, which contains notes on the Fitzpatricks of Coolcashin and Ballyboodin. Full transcriptions from Volumes 73 and 45, which relate to Fitzpatricks of Gorteen and Coolcashin are presented here. The records provide a way to connect descendants of Gorteen and Coolcashin Fitzpatricks to lineages of the sixteenth century, and earlier.