Creachmhaoil

Creachmhaoil derives from either Creag Mhaoil (bare rocky hill) or Creach Mhaoil (hill of plunder). The townland's earliest recorded settlement comes from Down Survey maps of 1641–1670, showing ownership by Catholic landholder Roger O'Larkan and later Dominick Roch, preserving Gaelic proprietorship during the Cromwellian period. Craughwell lies in the barony of Longford and civil parish of Kilt...