placenamesCraggagh
An Chreagach
Historical field observations record stone enclosures and a ruined church in this small Killonaghan townland.
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 Chreagach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Craggagh · English · main form
Place & story
The caher at the foot of the hill
Thomas Johnson Westropp’s field account places Craggagh’s caher on a low rocky knoll near the foot of the hill. He found its walls broken in places and overgrown, with nearby houses affecting the remains. An old lane linked the enclosure to Killonaghan church. His description also records foundations of three almost levelled cahers in the surrounding locality. [2]
A nineteenth-century record of the townland
The 1839 Ordnance Survey descriptive remarks, preserved in the Placenames Branch archive, record four old forts or cahers in Craggagh. The easternmost was named Caher Creggagh. The same description places a graveyard and ruined church near the townland’s centre. These observations document what surveyors saw in the nineteenth century; they do not establish dates of construction or the present condition of the remains. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Burren
- Civil parish
- Killonaghan
- Within
- Craggagh
- Coordinates
- 53.10651, -9.29921 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412547 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Craggagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Prehistoric Forts and Dolmens in North Clare, Part III: Northern Burren — Craggagh · Thomas Johnson Westropp / Clare Libraries Local Studies
- Craggagh — archival records, 1839 descriptive remarks, Cl075,15 · Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks / Placenames Branch
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.