West Cork Possibilities for Coughlin and Crowley Origins

My cousin Jack Pendergast thought that our families might have come from the Bantry Bay area of West County Cork, Ireland. He focused in, I believe, on the settlement of Glengariff (also spelled Glengarriff). This little town is about 6 miles from the town of Bantry, and only about 2 miles from County Kerry. It is also not far from the copper mines of Allihies and Castletownbere (so many of the Irish miners of Butte, Montana emigrated from the Castletownbere part of West County Cork).

Other possible locations for these families might be Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Schull, Ballydehob, and the surrounding countryside. I think it's likely that these families didn't live in a village at all, but out in the townslands because they were farmers.

Ireland is such a crazyquilt of civil parishes, church parishes, townlands, baronies, counties, etc. I think the Coughlin and Crowley families (and relatives like Lavin's, Sullivan's, McCarthy's, etc) lived, in descending order of size, in County Cork, West County Cork, Carbery Barony, West Carbery Barony. And then we're stuck. But they possibly lived around Bantry Bay. This was certainly an Irish-speaking area when Daniel Coghlin and Mary Crowley were born and when their children (Jeremiah, Bartholemew, Catherine, Cornelius, and probably others) were born. And Irish was probably still the predominant language among the poor peasantry (my family!) when they left Ireland around 1857. I have some reason to believe that they didn't all come to New York State (Scipio Town in Cayuga County) at the same time. In a book Jack Pendergast sent me, I find mention of Catherine Coughlin in the Scipio/Cayuga area before mention of the other family members. I will try to post exact information on this at a later time.