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I would like to announce that there is a Corrigan Surname DNA Project operating. This is for all variants of the surname. Carrigan is the most common variant of Corrigan.
We are a small group at the moment, with families tested from Co Mayo and Co Clare in Ireland, and Maryland, USA. We hope for many more families to join us.
By using y-DNA testing as a tool with our traditional genealogy research, the project will attempt to connect today's Corrigan/Carrigan lineages, find related family and hopefully discover where these lineages originated.
y-DNA is passed down the male line, from father, to son, to grandson, to gt grandson, etc...
A participant must therefore be a male on the Corrigan/Carrigan (or variant) line. Or a line that you have genealogical evidence of being originally a Corrigan (or variant) male line. ie; through a name change, adoption, etc.
Female's can ask a father, brother, grandfather, uncle, cousin or nephew etc... to test, to represent your particular family line.
I am hoping this will be of interest and help to fellow researchers or family members of Corrigan/Carrigan (and variants).
Please visit the Corrigan DNA Project website;
http://ftdna.com/public/corrigan
or email me personally for more information.
Regards Frances.
Origins of the Corrigan surname in Ireland;
O'Corragáin (in Gaelic), the sept belongs primarily to Fermanagh being of the same stock as the Maguires. Corrigans - the prefix O is seldom used - are still in that part of Ulster, but the name to-day is very scattered, being found in most counties, except in Munster. This was already the case in the sixteenth century when it appears in localities as far apart as Offaly, Roscommon, Meath and Monaghan. In the 1659 census Corrigan and O'Corrigan are among the more numerous Irish names in Offaly, Longford, and Fermanagh.
The majority of the references to it in the Four Masters are to abbots and other ecclesiastics in Co. Fermanagh.
Some known variants of the surname Corrigan are;
Carrigan, Carrogan, Corragan, Corrigan.
Currigan and Courigan in East Connacht,
Carrorcan in Co Clare.
Other variant spellings;
Carigan, Caroken, Carroughan, Carragan, Carraghan, Carregan, Carrigeen, Carroghan, Carroocan, Carrookan, Carrucan, Coarigan, Coorakan, Cooregan, Corican, Corigan, Corocan, Corogan, Corrican, Corrigin, Corrikan, Corrogan, Courakin, Currigan, Curraghan, Curraken.
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