placenamesCreggan
An Creagán
The Louth part of the wider parish has a local history centred on Shelagh and Courtbane.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Creagán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Creggan · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel name that crossed townland boundaries
Una Agnew’s history of Shelagh Chapel identifies the Shelagh district as the County Louth part of Upper Creggan’s Catholic parish. She explains that the stone chapel stands in Courtbane townland but retained the name of its predecessor in Shelagh. A school beside the chapel served local children before the present Scoil Bhríde opened in Shelagh in 1963. The former school was subsequently demolished, and land around the chapel became a graveyard, with the first burials in 1965. These institutions connect neighbouring townlands within the Louth district. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Louth
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.03780, -6.55406
- Mapped area
- 12.12 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1698 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Creggan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History of Shelagh Chapel · Sr Dr Una Agnew SSL
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.