Creggan Civil Parish
County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Barony | Fews Upper | Fews Upper |
Poor Law Union | Dundalk | Castleblayney |
Catholic Diocese | Armagh | Armagh |
Catholic Parish | Creggan Lower | Creggan Lower & Upper |
Presbyterian Cong. | Creggan | Creggan |
CREGGAN, a parish, partly in
the barony of Upper Dundalk, county of Louth, and province of Leinster,
but chiefly in the barony of Upper Fews, county of Armagh, and province
of Uster, 8 miles (W.N.W.) from Dundalk, on the road to
Newtown-Hamilton; containing 14,261 inhabitants, of which number, 1674
are in that part of the parish which is in the county of Louth.
This parish comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 24,815¼ statute
acres, of which 21,823½ including 419½ of water, are in Armagh, and
2991¾ in Louth. Of these, 21,640 acres are applotted under the
tithe act, and valued at £19,708 per ann.; and 1088 are mountain, bog,
and lakes. The surface is irregularly broken and the general
aspect bold: the soil is generally good, and the system of
cultivation improving. Linen cloth and yarn are manufactured to a
small extent by the farmers, whose principal dependence has been the
breeding of cattle, but now most of the grazing land has been converted
into arable, and even much of the mountainous district has been brought
into cultivation. The river Creggan, which divides this parish
into two nearly equal parts, turns several hundred acres of bog or
moorland used for fuel; and her is a coarse kind of granite and also a
coarse slate, which is very hard and durable: the quarries,
however, are not much worked, except by the neighbouring farmers, who
use the stone for building. The village is pleasantly situated,
and the surrounding scenery is picturesque. A market is held on
Friday at Crossmaglen for provisions, and fairs on the first Friday in
every month for farming stock. Cullyhanna, also a village in this
parish, is an improving place. Fairs are held in it on the second
Tuesday in January, April, July, and October, and there are two at
Ball's-Mills. There is a penny post to Dundalk; and petty sessions
for the Crossmaglen district are held in the schooroom at Creggan, on
alternate Saturdays, or weekly if requisite. The principal seats
in the parish are Urker Lodge, the property of T.P. Ball, Esq., to who
the parish principally belongs; Crossmaglen , of Capt. Ball; and Clohog
Lodge, of R.G. Wallace, Esq.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the
diocese of Armagh, and forms the corps of the treasurership in the
cathedral of St. Patrick, Armagh, in the patronage of the Lord-Primate.
The tithes amount to £1050: the glebe-house, which is near the church,
is romantically situated on the river Creggan, which flows through a
deep glen abounding with picturesque scenery, and ornamented with
evergreens, rustic seats, and walks cut out of the solid rock: the
surrounding grounds have been greatly improved by the Rev. Dr. Atkinson,
the rector. The glebe, comprising 300 Irish acres, consists of the
whole townland of Cregganban except 40 acres appropriated as a glebe for
Newtown-Hamilton, when that parish was severed from Creggan. The
church is a spacious and handsome edifice in the centre of the parish,
built in 1758, and to which a lofty square tower was added in 1799.
In the R.C. divisions the parish is the head of two unions or districts,
called Upper and Lower Creggan; the former contains four chapels,
situated at Crossmaglen, Glasdrummond, Mowbane, and Shela, of which that
at Crossmaglen was built in 1834, on a site given by T.P. Ball, Esq., at
an expense of £750; and the one at
Glasdrummond is a large and handsome building. The part called
Lower Creggan is united with the parish of Newton-Hamilton, and contains
a chapel at Cullyhanna and one in Newtown-Hamilton, both in that parish.
At Free-duff is a meetinghouse for Presbyterians in connection with the
Synod of Ulster of the second class; and there is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists at Ball's-Mills. The parochial schools, in
which are about 50 boys and 40 girls, are supported by the rector, who
gives the house, which was built in 1822, and a garden and two acres of
land rent-free for the master, besides books for the children.
There is a female working school in the church-yard, and an infants'
school superintended by Mrs. Atkinson; also schools at Tullynavale and
Anavachavarkey, built by the rector, aided by some subscriptions, and
chiefly supported by him; in the former, which is a large and handsome
edifice, divine service is performed by the rector, or his curate, on
Sunday evenings. At Darsey is national school; and there are
thirteen private schools in the parish, in which about 460 children are
educated. A dispensary was established at Crossmaglen in 1830.
In the northern part of the parish are vestiges of an ancient
intrenchment, which extended more than a mile in length and about one
third of a mile in breadth; it is now intersected by roads. |
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Townlands
LDS Film Numbers
Film Title | Film number(s) |
Tithe Applotments, 1828 | #258452 |
Griffith's Valuation Field Books, Fews Upper Barony, Cregan CP | #2357280 |
Griffith's Valuation, 1864, Castleblaney PLU | #258751 |
Griffith's Valuation, 1864, Dundalk PLU | #844991 |
Religious Census 1766 | #1279330 |
Ireland 1901 Census D.E.D. 35/1-5; 36/1-10 | #812089 |
Ireland 1901 Census D.E.D. 37/1-19, 20C (file 1-10) 1901 D.E.D. 38/1-7; 39/1-11 | #812090 |
Ireland 1901 Census D.E.D. 38/1-7; 39/1-11 | #812090 |
Ireland 1901 Census D.E.D. 41/1-5 1901 D.E.D. 42-1 | #812091 |
Ireland 1911 Census Cloghogh D.E.D. 37/1-5 Townlands: Carran, Cloghoge, Creggan Duff, Freeduff, Tullynavall | #1999954 |
Ireland 1911 Census Creggan Lower D.E.D. 38/1-3 Townlands: Ballynaclosha, Carnally, Coolderry | #1999954 |
Ireland 1911 Census Creggan Lower D.E.D. 38/4-10 Townlands: Cornoonagh, Glasdrumman, Legmoylin, Lurgancullenboy, Mounthill, Tullydonnell (Gage), Tullydonnell (Ó Callaghan) | #1999955 |
Ireland 1911 Census Crossmaglen D.E.D. 39/1-17 Townlands: Ballynacarry, Carrickamone, Clarbane, Cornahove, Creenkill, Creevekeeran, Creggan Bane Glebe, Crossmaglen, Cullaville, Drumbally, Drumgose, Glasdrummanaghy, Lisamry, Loughross, Monaguillagh, Monog, Rathkeelan | #1999956 |
Ireland 1911 Census Crossmaglen D.E.D. 39/18-19 Townlands: Tullyard, Urcher | #1999957 |
Ireland 1911 Census Cullyhanna D.E.D. 40/1-7 Townlands: Annaghmare, Corliss, Cullyhanna Big, Cullyhanna Little, Sheetrim, Teer, Teer Island | #1999957 |
Ireland 1911 Census Moybane D.E.D. 41/1-3 Townlands: Annaghgad, Cappagh, Claranagh | #1999957 |
Ireland 1911 Census Moybane E.D. 41/4-11 Townlands: Clonalig, Drumboy, Drummuck, Drummackavall, Liscalgat, Lissaraw, Moybane, Sheiland | #1999994 |
Ireland 1911 Census Dorsy D.E.D. 43/1-5 Townlands: Dorsy, Finiskin, Ummeracam North (Ball), Ummeracam South (Ball), Ummeracam (Johnston) | #1999995 |
Ireland 1911 Census Lisleitrim E.D. 44/1 Townlands: Drumlougher | #1999956 |
Creggan Lower RC Parish registers, Baptisms, 1854-1880; and marriages, 1845-1881 | # 926034 |
Creggan Lower RC Parish registers, Baptisms, 1845-1880; and marriages, 1845-1881; another copy. | #979710 |
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