The source records Donore as this person's birthplace. The pin marks the area, not an exact birth address or later home.

What is recorded here

Map note: Joseph Colgan is a birthplace in County Westmeath, Ireland. The record may be short; the location is here to explore.

Why this person is known: Irish-born Roman-Catholic archbishop

From Wikidata Q13539255

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Donore HouseFarmyard complex · 779 yd

The AbbeyFriary · 1624 yd

BallinacloonOutbuilding · 1703 yd

Children of Lir: Lough DerravaraghLegend location · 1.1 mi

Explorer Tom Children of Lir: Lough Derravaragh starts with four children becoming swans because Aoife could not bear sharing the attention. That is not a family argument I want to referee. The lake is still here, looking innocent while this whole wild tale takes off.