placenamesDrumcreehy
Droim Críche
Lewis’s 1837 account links a private oyster bed with farming along Ballyvaughan Bay.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Críche · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Drumcreehy · English · main form
Place & story
A small bed in Pouldoody creek
In his 1837 description of Drumcreehy, Samuel Lewis identified a small oyster bed in Pouldoody creek belonging to J. S. Moran of Mucknish. He reported that its oysters were distributed as gifts to the owner’s friends. This was a particular private bed, rather than a statement about every oyster fishery around the bay. Lewis also described rocky mountain pasture used chiefly for sheep, with seaweed gathered from the bay serving as the parish’s principal manure. [2]
One school and another planned
Lewis recorded a school assisted by the Duke of Buckingham and a second school that was about to be established. The latter was therefore a proposal in his account, rather than a confirmed operating school. He also distinguished Drumcreehy’s ruined church from the church serving its wider ecclesiastical union, which stood in neighbouring Rathbourney. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumcreehy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dromcrehy, or Drumcreely — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.