placenamesCreagh
An Chraobhach
Lewis recorded separate funding arrangements for worship and education before the Famine.
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 Chraobhach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Creagh · English · main form
Place & story
The church funding
Samuel Lewis recorded a £600 gift and a £400 loan from the Board of First Fruits towards Creagh’s church in 1810. He described the building as having a square tower with pinnacles, with the ruins of an older church adjoining it. The two sums represent different forms of assistance, rather than two estimates for the same contribution. [2]
A school built in 1834
The parochial school was built on the glebe in 1834. It was connected with the Cork Diocesan Association but principally supported by the rector. Lewis’s total of about 150 boys and sixty girls covered this institution and the national school in Skibbereen together; it was not the enrolment of the glebe school alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.51429, -9.31299 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 29.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 556 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Creagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Creagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.