Rev. Martin Coen, Irish priest and historian (6 October 1933 - 2 December 1997).

A grandnephew of Fr. Thomas Cawley (1878–1949) and a great-grandnephew of Fr. Edward Holland, O.D.C. (1838–1918). Born at Raheen House, Gort

Gort

Gort is a town in south County Galway in the west of Ireland. An Gort is the official Irish name for the town, as defined by the Placenames Commission. In spoken Irish, however, the town is known by its traditional name Gort Inse Guaire. It lies just north of the border with County Clare on the...

, to Thomas Coen and Mary Holland, he was educated at Kiltartan

Kiltartan

Kiltartan is a barony in County Galway, Ireland. It was formerly known as Cenél Áeda na hEchtge. It was the home of Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and a regular residence of W.B. Yeats.It is alluded to in Yeats's poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death....

 national school and St. Mary's College, Galway (1947–52).

Select bibliography

• The Wardenship of Galway, 1791-1831, private circulation, 1967.
• Researcher for The Life of John Phillip Holland by R.N. Morris, Annapolis, 1966
• Dr. Edmund Ffrench, Galway, The Presentation Convent, n.d.
• The Mantle 1958-74, contributed forty articles.
• The Irish College in Rome, in Bethleham, Dublin, 1959.
• History of St. Mary's College in Altra, Galway, 1963.

Reference

• Galway Authors, Helen Maher, 1976.
• In Memorium, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
  Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
  The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society was founded on the 21 March 1900, at the Railway Hotel, Galway. It promotes the study of the archaeology and history of the west of Ireland. Since 1900, the Society has published 60 volumes of the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical...
  
  , Vol 50 (1998) pp. 218-219.