Family Names of Creggan Parish

These pages provide information about the distribution of family names in townlands of Creggan Parish between 1766 and about 1974. The names are derived from the lists of individual householders in each townland at the time they were compiled for official purposes. This enables us to see how family names survive and numbers change over almost two centuries.

The valuations/census used here are spaced about a generation apart from 1828 onward and provide and interesting snapshot of the family make-up of the parish at each point. As well as providing a list of all the family names in each of the records, there is a analysis of the location of the majority of the most frequent of these.

The 1935 and 1957 Valuation information can not be relied on as accurate since the records were updated only on notification of land and property changes, which could, in some cases, be long delayed. They are however the best available and should be accepted for what they are - a slightly out-of-focus snapshot of the position at a specific point in time.

The information has been sifted into three categories - as follows -

• Alphabetical Summary: A simple list of all the family names showing the number of families in the parish as a whole.
• Name and Location List: An alphabetical list of family names showing all of the townlands etc. in which they appear.
• Frequency Analysis: A list of the 30/32 most frequent names showing the total number of families of that name in the parish, the number of townlands in which they reside, and the location and number of families in the townlands in which the greater numbers lived.
• Full Alphabetical List: This is a comprehensive list of the full names of all the 9,786 individuals recorded in the seven censuses and Tithe Applotment/Valuation Books between 1766 and 1974.