placenamesCranny
An Chrannaigh
A wartime survey captures Cranny’s everyday services, while local commemorations preserve its connection with Peadar Clancy.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Chrannaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cranny · English · main form
Place & story
A working hamlet in 1943
Irish Tourist Association surveyor Ralph Lucas visited on 27 September 1943 and described Cranny as a scattered hamlet. He recorded a Catholic church, curate’s house, three-teacher school, creamery and two licensed premises. The creamery handled poultry and eggs as well as milk. A post office dealt in letters without telephone or telegraph services, and a football field provided a local recreation ground. [2]
Remembering Peadar Clancy
Pat Shannon’s local account records the disruption of Peadar Clancy’s memorial Mass in Cranny in November 1920, when British army and police personnel arrived seeking local volunteers. The connection continued in later commemoration: in 2016 the Peadar Clancy Summer School committee unveiled a memorial sculpture outside the village’s Peadar Clancy National School. The sculpture places the remembrance of the revolutionary beside a continuing community institution. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cranny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cranny & Coolmeen — Irish Tourist Association survey, 27 September 1943 · Ralph Lucas / Irish Tourist Association, reproduced by Clare Libraries
- Cranny’s Peadar Clancy Legacy, West Clare War of Independence commemorative publication, p. 3 · Pat Shannon / Clare County Library-hosted commemorative publication
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.