Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Houlihans of Garrycastle


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The result was delete‎ __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  23:41, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

The Houlihans of Garrycastle

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No evidence for this hoax / WP:OR piece. See the talk page and User talk:Fram for analysis of the sources and why this isn't a WP:V subject. Based on some loose mentions and a trail of breadcrumbs across sources of varying reliability,  a whole story is fabricated. No reliable source which actually discusses the Houlihans, Lords of Garrycastle, seems to exist. Something like "Corcran O'Ullaghan, last Lord of Garrycastle (died in the Battle of Aughrim)" is based on thin air. The Barons of Garrycastle were the MacCochlans. Fram (talk) 19:55, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Ireland. Fram (talk) 19:55, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not only do the available/existing references not seem to support the text of the article, I can find no additional references to support a claim to notability under WP:GNG/WP:SIGCOV. While some of the available sources (like these: ) confirm the existence of several branches of the Hoolahan family (and associate one branch with some Colgan cousins(?)) it requires more than a little OR/SYNTH to come to the conclusions we see in the article. Even if we were to accept that a family existed called the "Houlihans of Garrycastle" (and the sources would need significant interpretation to even come to that conclusion), where is the evidence of SIGCOV/GNG/notability? (I certainly haven't found any...) Guliolopez (talk) 15:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. No evidence has been provided to verify the notability of the subject. The article is quite obviously not more than an original synthesis of misinterpreted sources. Borsoka (talk) 17:43, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Fails notability, not verified. Spleodrach (talk) 11:19, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment -- A very minor family of lords at most. It would not surprise me if Colgan was an anglicisation of Hoolahan, but that does not deal with the problem that they were all NN minor gentry.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:58, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


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