Team photograph, 1936Luis Duggan
1906–1987
Irish link: Documented
The 1936 Olympic polo gold medallist from the Duggan family of Ballymahon, wool brokers and landowners behind the town of Duggan.
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Duggan
A railway town in San Antonio de Areco partido named after the Duggan brothers from Ballymahon, whose estancia San Ramón bred Shorthorn cattle from 1888.
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- Town
- Where
- Buenos Aires · San Antonio de Areco · Argentina
- On the globe
- 34.22° S, 59.63° W · Coordinates from Wikidata · See it on the globe
Visiting
Visiting: Not confirmedas of 2004
A railway town; the Duggan estancia San Ramón was a working estancia at a 1991 cattle auction, so it may be private.
Source: IAHS, Irish Place Names and Landmarks: Duggan (2004), 2004(opens in a new tab)Duggan is a railway town in the partido of San Antonio de Areco, named after the Duggan family. According to the Irish Argentine Historical Society, the Duggan brothers came from Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1859; Thomas Duggan was christened in Shrule parish on 18 November 1838. The station opened on 25 May 1882. In 1888 the Duggans set up the Sittyton Shorthorn stud on their estancia San Ramón. Thomas died in 1913. Brian Ó Doibhlin's 2021 study of Irish place names says the town is named after Tomás Duggan, who sold land to the railway in 1896. Nally attended a cattle auction at San Ramón in 1991, so the estancia was still working then.
Sources differ on the family's origin and departure. The IAHS says Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1859; the Olympedia entry for the polo player Luis Duggan, a grandson of one of four Duggan brothers, says they left Co. Westmeath in 1849 and founded the wool brokers Duggan Brothers. Ballymahon stands close to the Longford–Westmeath border, the core of the district that sent most Irish emigrants to Argentina. Luis Duggan won Olympic polo gold for Argentina in 1936. The novelist Alfred Duggan, born in Lomas de Zamora in 1903, was a grandson of Thomas Duggan of Ballymahon and of Marcela Casey, sister of the founder of Venado Tuerto.
Where sources disagree
Published sources give different versions. Here is each one with its source, and the wording we use.
The Duggan brothers' origin and departure
Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1859
Source: IAHS, Irish Place Names and Landmarks: Duggan (2004), 2004(opens in a new tab)Co. Westmeath, in 1849
Source: Olympedia, Luis Duggan (accessed 11 Oct 2026), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)
We say: From Ballymahon, Co. Longford
How Duggan station got its name
The station opened on 25 May 1882
Source: IAHS, Irish Place Names and Landmarks: Duggan (2004), 2004(opens in a new tab)Tomás Duggan sold land to the railway in 1896
Source: Brian Ó Doibhlin, Studi irlandesi 11 (2021), 2021(opens in a new tab)
We say: Named after the Duggan family
People linked to this place
- Team photograph, 1936
Sources
- Source: IAHS, Irish Place Names and Landmarks: Duggan (2004), 2004(opens in a new tab)
- Source: Brian Ó Doibhlin, Studi irlandesi 11 (2021), 2021(opens in a new tab)
- Source: Nally, the Irish in Argentina (1992), via SILAS, 1992(opens in a new tab)
- Source: Olympedia, Luis Duggan (accessed 11 Oct 2026), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)
- Source: SILAS DILAB, Murray, Duggan, Alfred Leo (1 Oct 2003), 1 October 2003(opens in a new tab)
- Source: Patrick McKenna, MA thesis, NUI Maynooth (1994), ch. 8, 1994(opens in a new tab)