Dean Anthony Cogan (1826–1872) was a nineteenth-century

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, (awarded the religious title of ''

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''), born in

Slane Slane () is a village in County Meath, in Ireland. The village stands on a steep hillside on the left bank of the River Boyne at the intersection of the N2 (Dublin to Monaghan road) and the N51 (Drogheda to Navan road). As of the 2016 census ...

,Cogan, Dean Anthony (Historian) 1826-1872
/ref> who wrote a history of the

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. Published in two volumes in 1862 and 1867, Cogan's '' The Diocese of Meath'' was an important history of

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in Ireland. Anthony Coogan was born in 1826, one of five sons and three daughters of baker Thomas Coogan and his wife Ann Sillary,Historian and Priest Cogan Honoured with Plaque
Drogheda Independent, June 6th, 2003. his mother converted from the Church of Ireland to Catholicism to marry. Cogan trained for the priesthood in St. Finian's Seminary in Navan. Cogan's work, which included a humanitarian dimension, led to the naming of a housing estate in his memory: ' Dean Cogan Place', located in

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, where he had served as a

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. A plaque unveiled in 2003 adorns the wall of his birthplace on main street Slane.

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1826 births 1872 deaths 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests 19th-century Irish historians People educated at St Finian's College {{Ireland-historian-stub