We present a study of the effect of heavy-ion irradiation on a thinned single crystal of the unconventional heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn 5 . Magnetic susceptibility and low-temperature specific heat results show that the superconducting transition temperature (T c ) changed only 4% with irradiation of 1 × 10 12 ions/cm 2 , Energy = 1 GeV, while the specific heat jump at T c , C, divided by C n , where C n is the normal state specific heat just above T c , was reduced to 3.6 from C/C n = 4.5 for unirradiated CeCoIn 5 . The increase of low-temperature magnetic susceptibility and the saturation in magnetization suggest that the defects induced by heavy-ion irradiation are magnetic in nature, as was seen in the case of neutron irradiation on the heavy fermion superconductors, UBe 13 and UPt 3 . The non-Fermi liquid behavior of the irradiated sample, based on the temperature dependence of the low temperature magnetic susceptibility, is significantly altered.