Without absolute proof, the assumption is that Ambrose is the father of Ellen "Nellie" Boughan Mitchell because he is the only Boughan showing up in the tithe records for Clooncona and the Boughan cottage in clooncona was a substantial piece of real estate in 1820s thus Ambrose was likely the Boughan progenitor living in clooncona. ~~~ While on vacation in Clooncona, in Killimor, the Boughan descendant, Paddy Ralley, living in the (Ambrose?) Boughan Family cottage showed me old brass, skinny, tall, ecclesiastical candlesticks on his cottage mantle, and told me the complete story of how these old candlesticks were used to conduct secret, illegal Catholic masses in the area, long ago, Thus whereby the illegal, secretive, Catholic congregation of the neighborhood would meet carefully, secretly, in ravines, to conduct the outlawed catholic mass, and these candlesticks have been used for many generations. He went on to tell in detail how one or two people would be posted to watch out for those Protestant, government authorities trying to catch the covert Catholics. Thus these posted watch guards would make a signal to those secret-mass attendees, and the whole congregation would disburse quickly, if indeed the authorities were coming to arrest them for having an illegal Catholic mass, which was historically the case in Ireland up until about the 1830s. So these old brass candlesticks on his cottage mantle had been used for many generations, possibly hundreds of years, around clooncona and had somehow been passed down to the Boughan family, or perhaps the Boughan Family may have actually been directly involved with these illegal Catholic masses being conducted covertly in the hidden ravines. Patty also had 19th century food platters that have been stitched together with lead stitching, upon his mantle. ~~~ Paddy told me that there was a cousin whose name was Ambrose Mitchell which would make sense if they were naming him after an ancestor like a great grandfather, Ambrose Boughan. In the old Catholic registrar, the surname is ALWAYS spelled Boughan, not Bohan.