placenamesCranford
Creamhghort
Parliamentary exchanges identify Cranford’s wider electoral district during a dispute over rural hardship and the provision of relief employment.
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
- Creamhghort · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cranford · English · main form
Place & story
Reports of hardship
On 9 April 1895, Arthur O’Connor asked about representations from Milford’s poor-law guardians concerning Cranford and Loughkeel electoral divisions. He said a list of 300 people in need had reached the inspector. T. D. Sullivan also pressed for relief works, citing potato-crop failure. Chief Secretary John Morley replied that the inspector had not reported exceptional distress, but was making further inquiries. The exchange preserves conflicting assessments rather than an independently verified count of destitute residents. [2]
Relief employment authorised
Sullivan returned to the issue on 28 May. Morley then stated that directions had been issued to provide relief employment for poor people in both electoral divisions. He also described inspectors consulting local clergy when investigating reported hardship. This later answer documents an authorisation of work; it gives neither a list of completed projects nor a total of people eventually employed. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cranford. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Commons9April1895:Distress in Ireland,Cranford and Loughkeel exchange · House of Commons, Hansard1895
- Commons28May1895:Distress in County Donegal · House of Commons, Hansard1895
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