Creggan (Armagh portion)

• Crossmaglen Library, The Square, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland BT35 9AA
  • Tel: 028 3086 1951
  • e-mail: CrossmaglenLibrary[at]NI-Libraries[dot]NET
• Abbreviations used in these GENUKI County Armagh, and library notes
  • AIGS = Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
  • FHL = Family History Library (LDS)
  • LDS = Latter Day Saints
  • NLI = National Library of Ireland
  • PRO = National Archives (formerly, the Public Record Office) at Kew, England
  • PRONI = Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
  • QUB = Queen's University, Belfast
  • Before visiting a Library to consult a book or other reference, please check with Library staff to ensure that the book is actually available. You may wish to try borrowing a book from the national libraries in Australia, Canada, England, the U.S., etc., either directly or via inter-library loan.

• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Anton, Dr Bridget, John Mitchell - profile of a revolutionary, 1997/1998, Vol 8
  • Conlon, Herbie, The Millionaire Murphy [Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich], 1992, Vol 6
  • Cumiskey, Mary, Sir Thomas Jackson, 1990, Vol 4
  • Kieran, Tony, Remembering Art McCooey, 1992, Vol 6
  • McShane, Michael, A tribute to James (Jem) Murphy [local historian], 1993, Vol 7
  • Murphy, Kevin, Michael J. Murphy: 'The Last Druid' 1913-1996 [local historian], 1997/1998, Vol 8
  • Duffy, Sean, The Loughross Gaelic Scholar Dr. James Woods, 1989, Vol 3

• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • -----, Sale of scutch mill in Crossmaglen [document dated 1884], 1989, Vol 3
  • Duffy, Michael J., Flax in August, 1987, Vol 2
  • Miroudot, Bernadette, Scutch mills, 1989, Vol 3

• Creggan Bane Glebe graveyard, C of I, Seanchas Ardmhacha, Vol. 4, 1976
• Gravestone inscriptions in Creggan graveyard, Donaghcavey cemetery, old Kilskeery graveyard, Drumglass cemetery, photocopy available at the PRONI
• McMahon, Kevin and Jem Murphy, Guide to Creggan Church & graveyard, Creggan Historical Society, [Crossmaglen], 1988
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p NB1863/MCMA
  • Also available for purchase from the Creggan History Society: e-mail info[at]cregganhistory.co[dot]uk
• McMahon, Kevin, and Michael McShane, Inscriptions in Freeduff Presbyterian Graveyard, in the appendix to the Journal of the Creggan Historical Society, 2001/2002, Vol 10
• McShane, Michael, Tombstone Inscriptions of Creggan Parish, St. Patrick's Cemetery, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh, 2002; available for purchase from the Creggan History Society: e-mail info[at]cregganhistory.co[dot]uk

• 1766 - Religious census of some Ulster parishes, 1766, Armagh County Museum no. E8, FHL Film 1279330 Item 1
• 1901 & 1911 Census - FHL film numbers
• 1901 - South Armagh census returns, from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site

• Church of Ireland
• Presbyterian
• Roman Catholic

• Chairdinéil Ó Fiaich Heritage Centre in Cullyhanna
• Carville, Geraldine, Creggan: a Celtic Christian site: tangible links with St. Jarlath, 3rd Arc...
  • QUB: Armagh Campus Lib. - BX4700.J3/CARV, and Daly/ DA993.A8/CARV; and, Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls)- h BX4700.J3/CARV
  • Also available for purchase from the Creggan History Society: e-mail info[at]cregganhistory.co[dot]uk
• Church of Ireland, Parish Church of Creggan, and Paterson, T. G. F. (Thomas George Farquhar), Parish of Creggan. Vol. 2: some notes relating to the Freeduff congregation in the Parish of Creggan and County of Armagh, and other antiquities, Armagh County Museum no. F6, FHL Film 1279353 Item 5
• Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • General interest articles, various issues of the journal
  • Homilies and lectures, 1993, Vol 7
• Larkin, Gene, The last true prince of Ulster, published in the 1991 Journal of the Creggan Local History Society, and posted to Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site
• Nelson, Simon (d.1847), History of the parish of Creggan in counties Armagh and Louth, Armagh County Museum no. E6, FHL Film 1279329 Item 20
• Scott, Henry Gordon Waller, Cregan Parish notes, Armagh County Museum no. E8, FHL Film 1279330 Item 5
• Irish miscellanea, chiefly from County Armagh [re: the Creggan vestry in the eighteenth century, and the churchwardens of Creggan], FHL Film 1279354 Item 10

• Church of Ireland
• Presbyterian
• Roman Catholic

• The Wikipedia entry for Creggan (Armagh portion).

• Chambers, S. W., Places of interest in Northern Ireland. No. 1: South Armagh, Newry and the Mourne Mountains, [Belfast: 1941]
  • NLI: Ir 9141 p 106, Coll. Ir.
• Hughes, A.J., `Descriptive Remarks' for the County Armagh portion of Creggan Parish contained in the Nineteenth-Century Ordnance Survey Name-Books, Seanchas Ardmacha, Vol 15,= no1 (1992) pp 97-112

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Crossmaglen, County Armagh, from the Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory for 1910 - hosted by Library Ireland

• Emigration from Creggan, Co. Armagh, PRONI ref. T/3773

• The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
• Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
• The Townlands of Creggan, from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site
  • Ballynaclosha
  • Cappagh
  • Cregganbane
  • Cregganduff
  • Drumbally
  • Drumboy
  • Drummuckavall
  • Glasdrummanaghy
  • Glasdrumman
  • Legmoylin
  • Monaguillach
  • Moybane
  • Rathkeelan
  • Tullydonnell Gage
  • Tullydonnell O'Callaghan
  • Urcher
• Donaldson, John, Account of the Barony of The Upper Fews in the County of Armagh, orig. pub. in 1838, reprinted 1993; available for purchase from the Creggan History Society: e-mail info[at]cregganhistory.co[dot]uk
• Lewis, Samuel, Creggan from Lewis' Topographical dictionary of Ireland [1837]; from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Creggan (Armagh portion) to another place.

• Distribution of family names in townlands of Creggan Parish between 1766 and 1974, from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site
• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Bán Donaldson, Ronald, Bán Donaldson: The Irish-American connection, 1989, Vol 3
  • Eastwood, Rev. David M., In search of the Eastwoods - 2: Their origins and financial vagrancies, 1997/1998, Vol 8
  • Gourd, Len, In search of the Eastwoods, 1994/1995, Vol 7
  • McMahon, Kevin, Cal Mor [Big Charley Carragher], 1990, Vol 4
  • McMahon, Kevin, The Johnstons of the Fews, 1986, Vol 1
• McConville, Kieran Eugene, Families in the history of Teer: decline and revival in a south Armagh town, [The author], [Belfast], 2001
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h q DA994.T18/MCCO
• The O'Neills of the Fews, and Johnston of the Fews, from the Creggan Church and Visitors Centre, Crossmaglen web site

• AIGS holds Film IRL Gen34 which contains (in addition to other items) Creggan Parish, 1611-1840
• Book list
• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Index of articles, at the Creggan History Society's web site
  • Antiquities and archaeology
  • Local history studies
  • Other subjects
• Nelson, Simon (d.1847), A history of the parish of Creggan from 1611 to 1840, Armagh County Museum no. D6, FHL Film 1279325 Item 1
• Newry Journal e-zine
  • Creggan parish of 1840s, by John McCullagh (22 Jan 2004)
  • Crossmaglen Evictions 1888, by John McCullagh (29 Apr 2004)
  • Famine in Creggan, by John McCullagh (7 Mar 2004)

• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Gourd, Len, The Cornonagh Evictions, 1999/2000, Vol 9
  • McMahon, Kevin, The Cornonagh Evictions, 1989, Vol 3
  • Murphy, Jem, Carnally House, 1987, Vol 2

• Chambers, S. W., Places of interest in Northern Ireland. No. 1: South Armagh, Newry and the Mourne Mountains, [Belfast: 1941]
  • NLI: Ir 9141 p 106, Coll. Ir.
• Mhic An Ghirr, Con, Words and phrases in Irish, Journal of the Creggan History Society, 1987, Vol 2
• Native Irish speakers of Creggan parish, 1901, from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site

• Creggan parish - Townland map, from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site
• Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Bessbrook, Crossmaglen & Keady, 1906, Godfrey ed., Alan Godfrey, Gateshead, 1986
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p G5790/.O5

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference H9361116858 (Lat/Lon: 54.092387, -6.57006), Creggan (Armagh portion) which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Copy Creggan (Armagh portion) and paste it along with the county name into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland.
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • McConville, Kieran, Paddy Lennon: A Cullyhanna man with the Boers, 2001/2002. Vol 10
  • McMahon, Kevin, Incidents, War of Independence, Creggan Parish, 1994/1995, Vol 7
  • Murphy, Kevin, Belmont Barracks, 1989, Vol 3

• Church of Ireland, Parish Church of Creggan, Parish of Creggan. Vol. 1 : notes from church registers, vestry books, etc., Armagh County Museum no. F6, FHL Film 1279353 Item 4

• Ó Paircín, Liam, in AINM, Journal of the Ulster Place-name Society, Index of Contents, AINM - I-VIII
  • Carnally (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 96
  • Creggan (bar. Fews Upr.) VIII (1998-2000), 48
  • Cregganduff, Creagán Dubh (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 96
  • Dorsy, Dorsa (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion area) VIII (1998-2000), 95
  • Dorsy, Dorsa, Doirse, Doirse Emna (South Armagh) VII (1996-97), 154 (= BUPNS Series I Vol. 1 Part 2 (Spring 1953), 37 [25]); VIII (1998-2000), 95
  • Dorsy (Hearty) (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 95
  • Finiskin, Fionnuiscín? (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 96
  • Freeduff, Fraoch Dubh (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 96
  • Legmoylin (par. Creggan, bar. Fews Upr.) VIII (1998-2000), 48
  • Lurgancullenboy, Lorgain an Chuilinn Bhuí (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 96
  • Tullynavall, Tulaigh na bhFál (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 96
  • Ummeracam (Johnston), Iomaire Cam (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 97
  • Ummeracam North, South (Ball) (Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion Area) VIII (1998-2000), 97
• Creggan parish townlands - names and derivations, from Pat Devlin's family history and South Armagh web site
• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Fee, John, What's in a name? [the possible derivation of the names of the townlands of Creggan], 1986, Vol 1
  • Macauley, Hugh, Placenames of Creggan, 1992, Vol 6
• Townlands in Creggan parish, from the PRONI's Geographical Index

• IrelandOldNews -- an ongoing, volunteer project to transcribe 18th & 19th century Irish newspapers
  • Input "Creggan" and spelling variants into the "Find" box
  • Also try inputting townland and other placenames found in Creggan parish
  • Of course, you may also wish to search for your favourite personal and family names!
  • Revisit the IrelandOldNews web site periodically, as transcribers update their county pages regularly
• The Belfast Newspaper Index, 1737-1800; compiled by Dr. John C. Greene of Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A.
  • Mentions of Creggan in the Belfast Newsletter index

• Journal of the Creggan Historical Society
  • Cumiskey, Mary, The hirin', 1986, Vol 1
  • Cumiskey, Mary, The hirin', 1987

• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • The Cardinal O'Fiaich Centre, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland BT35 0JH Northern Ireland
  • Other publications available from the Society
  • Tel: 028 3086 8757

• ---, South Armagh! Your day for Ireland. [Bye-election appeal by Sinn Fein urging constituents to vote for complete separation from Great Britain], [n.p., 1918]
  • NLI: ILB 300 p 3 [Item 110], Coll. Ilb.
• De Valera, Eamonn (1882-1975), To the voters of Armagh, printed for the Candidate, Dr. Patrick McCartan, by O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, Ltd., Dublin; and published by the Sinn Fein Election Committee, [Dublin], [1918]
  • NLI: Ms 25,588(57), Manuscript Colls.
• Eye-witness, When McCartan comes marching home, [Dublin?], [1918]
  • NLI: Ms 25,588(58), Coll Ms.
• McCartan, Patrick (1878-1966), Conscription, printed for the Candidate, Doctor Patrick McCartan, by O'Loughlin, Murphy and Boland, Ltd., Dublin; and published by the Sinn Fein Election Committee, [Dublin], [1918]
  • NLI: Ms 25,588(56v), Coll Ms.
• McCartan, Patrick (1878-1966), Which do you choose?, printed for the Candidate at the Wood Printing Works, [Dublin], [1918]
  • NLI: Ms 25,588(60), Coll Ms.
• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • McGuinness, Siobhan, The February 1918 by-election in South Armagh, 1992, Vol 6
  • McMahon, Kevin, The United Irishmen in Creggan parish, 1997/1998, Vol 8
• O'Dwyer, Edward Thomas (1842-1917), The late Bishop of Limerick and John Redmond, printed by P. Mahon, Dublin, and published by the Candidate, [Dublin], [1918]
  • NLI: Ms 25,588(58), Coll Ms.

• Armagh Poor Law Union, from Peter Higginbotham's The Story of Workhouses web site

• Holdings of documents related to Creggan parish at the PRONI
  • Papers about individual parishes in the Armagh Diocesan Registry archive
    • "Creggan (Newtownhamilton), Co. Armagh -- The papers date from 1734-1735, 1773 and 1790-1950 (with many gaps), and include certificates of Bernard Murphy's conformity to the Church of Ireland, 1734-1735, plans and valuations relating to alterations to the church, 1851-1852, and a c.1870 schedule of formal documents relating to buildings over the period 1732-1852."

• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Kieran, Tony, Saint Bridis's P.S. Re-opened 1989, 1999/2000, Vol 9

• ---, Exploring living memory [(Slide)], Part 1: South Armagh reminiscence and recall, Confederation of Community Groups, Newry, 1985(Slide)
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus - ts/ HV1481.N8/EXPL
• Castleblayney Community Enterprises, Along the Black Pig's Dyke folklore from Monaghan and South Armagh, [Castleblayney Community Enterprises], [1993]
  • NLI: Ir 3991 a 15, Collection Ir.
• Journal of the Creggan History Society
  • Bourne, Mary Ann, "Youse the Bourkes?" (A Childhood in Creggan), 1999/2000, Vol 9
  • Cumiskey, Mary, Folk memories of the famine, 1994/1995, Vol 7
  • Mhic an Ghirr, Con, Crossmaglen Rangers GFC & AC, 1987, Vol 2
  • Murphy, Jem, Memories [reminiscences of an August evening and day in 1930], 1990, Vol 4
  • Ó Fiaich, Cardinal Tomas, Poets and scholars of Creggan parish, 1986, Vol 1
  • Ó Fiaich, Cardinal Tomas, Poets and scholars of Creggan parish, 1997/1998, Vol 8
• O'Callaghan, Michael, The Culloville [Creggan parish] G.A.A. story: 1888 - 1992, Culloville Blues G.F.C., [Culloville], 1994
  • NLI: IR 396 o 69, Coll Ir.

• Creggan History Society
  • Áras an Chairdinéil Ó Fiaich, Slatequarry Road, Cullyhanna, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland BT35 0JH
  • Tel: 028 3086 8757

• Valuation Records
  • 1848-1864, General valuation of rateable property in Ireland, "Griffith's Valuation"
    • Listed every occupier of land, the lessor of that land, size of the holding, and the rate payable on that holding
    • Creggan parish segment -- online at John Hayes' web site