Death registered April-June 1955, age at death: 78 years.

Date of birth may be baptism.

A single, literate farm labourer living with his maternal uncle in 1901 and with his older brother William in 1911.

1901 census: house 2 in Cornamult (Terryglass, Tipperary)

Surname	Forename	Age	Sex	Relation to head	Religion	Education	Occupation	Marriage	Where born
Heenan	James	50	Male	Head of Family	R C	Read & Write	Farmer	Married	Co. Tipperary
Heenan	Maggie	47	Female	Wife	Roman Catholic	Read & Write	---	Married	Co. Tipperary
Heenan	Maggie	14	Female	Daughter	R Catholic	Read & Write	Scholar	Not Married	Co. Tipperary
Quinlan	Denis	22	Male	Nephew	R Catholic	Read & Write	Labourer	Not Married	Co. Tipperary

1911 census: house 14 in Lehinch (Lorrha West, Tipperary)

Surname	Forename	Age	Sex	Relation to head	Religion	Education	Occupation	Marriage	Where born
Quinlan	William	43	Male	Head of Family	Roman Catholic	Read & Write	Farmer	Married	Tipperary
Quinlan	Sarah	36	Female	Wife	Roman Catholic	Read & Write	---	Married	Tipperary
Quinlan	Denis	33	Male	Brother	Roman Catholic	Read & Write	Farm Labourer	Single	Tipperary
Quinlan	Michael J	2	Male	Son	Roman Catholic	Cannot	Scholar	Single	Tipperary
Quinlan	Bridget	8 months	Female	Daughter	Roman Catholic	Cannot Read	Scholar	Single	---

Place of residence given as Lorrha when he married in Portumna; lived in Dominic Street, Portumna when he died.

Mr Williams, a neighbour whom we met in October 2015, remembers him working in the big store at Portumna Bridge where the flour and Guiness brought down from Dublin by canal and river were unloaded.