Information about Craughwell

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Craughwell
Irish Form of Name:
Creachmhaoil
Translation:
place of preys or plunders
Civil Parish:
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Craughwell
Creachmhaoil
Craughwell
Craughwell By. Sur. Sketch Map
Craughwell Co. Book
Craughwell Co. Map
Craughwell H. C. Sur. & Val. Reports
Cregwile Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Craughwell Mr. Walter Laurence
Craughwell Rev. Mr. Groom
Description:
This townland contains a number of farm houses, 4 lime kilns and a considerable portion of planting, a large portion of bog. The remainder arable and pasture.
Situation:
Bound on the North by Belview alias Lissereagan, East and North by Annacalla Doorus in Clonfert, South East by Feabeg in Fahy E. and South by Moorfield alias Gortnamona, S West by Raheen in the parish of Kilquain or Quansboroug [unable to read], West by Garrison, N. West by Feigh and Ballydonagh.

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Craughwell in Galway. This would at first sight appear to be Creamh-choill, wild-garlic wood (see vol. ii. p. 348 [reproduced below]); but it is not; for all the best local authorities agree in making it Creach-mhaoil, which they correctly interpret "place of plunders" or plunder hill (creach, plunder; maoil, a hill) : a place where plundered or lifted cattle were placed and kept.
Creamh combined with coill, wood, forms the compound creamhchoill [cravwhill: wild garlic wood], which undergoes many curious transformations in anglicised names, closely corresponding with the various forms of leamhchoill (see Longfield in 1st Vol.). One modification is Craffield, which is the name of a townland in Wicklow; and we have Cloonersffield (the meadow of the wild-garlic wood) near Castlerea in Roscommon. There is a parish in Antrim called Cranfield, which exhibits another form: Colgan calls it by its correct Irish name Cream-choill; but in a lease of 1683 it is written "Croghill alias Cranfield", showing that at that period the name was in process of change from an old and correct anglicised form, to what it now is. The townland of Cranfield also, which occupies the southern extremity of the barony of Mourne, and gives name to Cranfield Point at the entrance of Carlingford Lough, was formerly called Craughill (see Reeves: Eccl. Ant. P. 87). In Sligo this name becomes Crawhill, and in the parish of Ahoghill in Antrim, Crankill. It appears probably that the correct form of this word is cneamh [knav: k and n both pronounced], and that this has been corrupted to creamh like cnoc or crock; for we find cneamh preserved in several names. Knavagh is the name of a townland in the parish of Tiranascragh, near the Shannon, north of Portumna in Galway, which is the adjective form Cneamhach, a place producing wild garlic. In the parish of Inchicronan in Clare, one mile from the village of Crusheen, there is a townland called Drumminacknew, which took the first part of its name from a low ridge or drumman. But this little hill - as in many other cases - after giving name to the townland, got a new name itself, which however is a correct translation of the old name; and it is now called Garlic Hill. There is a place near Lismore in Waterford called Curraghacnav, the garlic-producing marsh.

Information From Griffith's Valution

Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
A.R.P.
767 0 31
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
272 3 1
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
0 0 0
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
272 3 1
Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:

Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Craughwell is a townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS map of this area.
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Craughwell
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Neighbouring Townlands

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Population and Census Information

People who lived here:
You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.
  • The Tithe Applotment Books
  • Griffith's Valuation
  • 1901 Census
  • 1911 Census
List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.
Church records of births, deaths and marriages:
Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)
Craughwell is in the civil parish of Kiltormer.
Roman Catholic parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.
  • Laurencetown & Kiltormer
Church of Ireland parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.
  • Kiltormer
In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Other Sources

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