# Dean Cogan
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{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic priest}}
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'''Dean Anthony Cogan''' (1826–1872) was a nineteenth-century [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) [Irish](/source/Irish_people) [priest](/source/priest) (awarded the religious title of ''[dean](/source/dean_(religion))''), born in [Slane](/source/Slane),[[http://www.navanhistory.ie/index.php?page=anthony-cogan Cogan, Dean Anthony (Historian) 1826-1872]] who wrote a history of the [Diocese of Meath](/source/Diocese_of_Meath) in [Ireland](/source/Ireland). Published in two volumes in 1862 and 1867, Cogan's ''[The Diocese of Meath](/source/The_Diocese_of_Meath)'' was an important history of [Christianity](/source/Christianity) in Ireland.
Anthony Cogan was born in 1826, one of five sons and three daughters of baker Thomas Coogan and his wife Ann Sillary,[[https://www.independent.ie/regionals/louth/drogheda-news/historian-and-priest-coogan-honoured-with-plaque/27110915.html 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](/source/St_Finian's_College) in Navan.
Cogan's work, which included a humanitarian dimension, led to the naming of a housing estate in his memory: '[Dean Cogan Place](/source/Dean_Cogan_Place)', located in [Navan](/source/Navan), where he had served as a [curate](/source/curate).