In the census of 1659 in Counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick similar sounding names such as Mac Curatine and O' Curataine were treated as synonymous although they are not the same clan.
In Clare, the Curtin family were located in Corco Modhruadh (Corcomroe),[1] with their principal hereditary lands at Carrowduff in Killaspuglonane[2] and others in Laghvally in Kilmacrehy.
With the fall of the Gaelic order, one branch remained in Corcomroe at Clooney, but some of the senior familial line moved south into Ibrickane, land retained by the O'Briens, first leasing Tromra Castle[4] (c. 1615), then living around Moyglass[5] with a burial place at Kilfarboy.
[9] The last member of the family with literary standing was Seamus Mac Cruitín a poet, bard and hedge school teacher, a forlorn figure, who worked for O'Curry collecting songs and poems.
They were hereditary proprietors in Fir Maige Féne (the barony of Fermoy), Co. Cork, with their seat at Rahan, a townland and Civil Parish[13] near Mallow.