Title: History of the surname Cooney
Headings: Cooney – descendants of an elegant chief
Cooney – descendants of an elegant chief
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Content: They became an established family in Co Sligo and eventually spread throughout the country. Be a friend of Ireland Calling
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Dearmid O’Cuana was a holy man who lived in the early 13th century. He was known as the ‘Great Priest of Elphin’. He was a priest of the Diocese of Elphin, which was the site of a monastic house that had been established by St Patrick in around AD 450. Many Cooneys headed to America in the 19th century in the Great Migration. Ireland lost half its population as people left their homeland to escape starvation caused by the potato famine. Jimmy Coonan was an Irish American mobster from Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York.