Creggan Townlands

A townland is the lowest-level geographical unit of land used in Ireland, smaller than a Parish or County. Townlands vary in size from as small as half an acre up to more than seven thousand acres. Townland size was often determined by the fertility of the land, thus townlands in high quality land tended to be smaller, while townlands in mountainous or bog areas tended to be much larger in size. During the middle decades of the 19th century, an extensive series of maps of Ireland were created by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland for taxation purposes, which documented and standardized the boundaries of the more than 60,00 townlands in Ireland.

The definitions below are from John Donaldson’s 1838 work An Account of the Barony of the Upper Fews in the County of Armagh.

Townland
Meaning
Townland
Meaning
Annaghgad
The robber’s ford
Freeduff
Black heath town
Annaghmare
The burying plain
Glassdrummond
The pleasant green hill
Ballinarea
The ready pass
Glassdrummonaghy
The green hill fit for heards of oxen
Cappagh
The rugged country
Legmoylin
The summit of the hill of larte stones
Carnally
The wild heap of stones
Lisamry Lisavery
The summer forth
Carran
The wet rocks
Liscalgat Liscolgat
The champions fort
Carrickamone
The salmon’s rocky ford
Lisseraw Liseragh
The airy fort
Clarnagh
The bare field
Loughross
The pleasant lake
Clarbane
The uncultivated plain
Lurgancullenboy
The end of the yellow holly wood
Cloghogue
Little stone
Monaghguillagh Monagella
The soft bog
Clonalig
The slothful tribe
Monog Monogg
The little mountain
Coolderry
The rear of the oakwood
Mounthill Ballinaghy
Mount town
Corliss
The solirory fort
Moybane Mobane
The uncultivated plain
Cornonagh Corneanagh
The high field of whins
Rathkeelan
McQuilkin’s fort
Creenkill Creinkil
The decayed wood
Sheetrim Sytrim
The protecting covert
Creevekeeran Crunkeeran
The renouned red branch
Shilland Shillan
The harmless clan
Cregganban Creggan
The rocky waterfall
Skeriff
The airy country
Crossmaglen
The cross of the shading plain
Teer
The house of slaughter
Cullaville
McCullough’s village
Tullyard
The high hill
Cullyhanna
The holly plain
Tullydonnell
Donald’s hill
Dorsy
The extensive forest of oak timber
Tullynavall Tullinavale
The soldier’s hill
Drumbally
The rear of the village
Tullyogallaghan Tullyagaleaghan
The hill of stagnant water
Drumboy Drumbee
The yellow ridge of a hill
Tullyvallen
The noble prince’s hill
Drumgoose
The dangerous rear of a hill
Ummericam
The crooked ridge of mountain
Drumlougher Drumlagher
The rushy hill or ridge
Ummerinvore Ummermuaire
The big ridge
Drummuck
Swine hill
Urker
The town of the throw or cast
Drummuckavall
The hill of the soldier’s son

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