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Family Names of Creggan Parish

1854 and 1864

The following table shows the incidence, and areas of highest concentration, of the most frequent family names (from a total of 400 unique names and 1914 individual householders) listed for Creggan Parish in the 1854 and 1864 General Valuation of Ireland (Griffiths Valuation). The 32 family names (8% of the total names) account for 812 (42.4%) of the total families.

The following townlands were listed in 1854. Ballynaclosha, Carnally, Coolderry, Cornoonagh, Glasdrumman, Legmoylin, Lurgancullenboy, Mounthill, Tullydonnell Gage and Tullydonnell O'Callaghan.

The others were listed in 1864.

Unlike the Tithe Applotment Books, Griffiths distinguished between those with houses in the townland and those with land only. For this table only those living in the townland have been counted.

The table has been extracted from the detailed lists in the Townland pages.

 
  No. of families No of townlands Townlands with highest
Family Name in Parish with this family number of families
Hughes 62 18 Cullyhanna Big (8), Ummericam Johnston (8)
Murphy 56 22 Carnally (9), Lurgancullenboy (8)
Quinn 54 18 Cullyhanna Little (17)
McShane 51 19 Sheetrim (6), Glasdrumman (6)
Kelly 39 18 Dorsey (5), Glasdrumman (4)
McCoy 35 10 Moybane (14), Clonalig (6)
Macken 34 6 Tullynavall (19), Dorsey (9)
Callaghan 30 18 Cornahove (4)
McArdle 28 13 Crossmaglen (4), Mounthill (4)
Loy 27 7 Ummericam ball (7), Dorsey (5)
Harvey 24 11 Clonalig (8)
Burns 24 13 Annaghgad (6)
McCabe 21 12 Tullyard (4), Teer (3)
Duffy 21 9 Teer (9)
Morris 20 6 Creevekeeran (13)
McMahon 20 10 Clonalig (5)
Conlon 20 12 Annaghmare (4), Cornonagh (3)
McCreesh 19 7 Drumlougher (7), Tullynavall (4)
Lennon 19 9 Crossmaglen (4)
Hanratty 19 10 Rathkeelan (7)
Donnelly 19 11 Creevekeeran (5), Tullynavall (3)
Campbell 19 7 Tullydonnell O'Callaghan (7)
McDonnell 17 8 Corliss (4)
O'Neill 16 10 No predominant location
Hearty 16 5 Cregganbane (8)
McKeown 15 8 Lissaraw (5)
Donaldson 15 4 Cloghoge (10)
Daly 15 9 Carran (4)
Casey 15 5 Clarnagh (7)
McAnulty 14 6 No predominent location
Keenan 14 7 Tullynavall (5)
Boyle 14 8 Urcher (3)

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Last Updated on 11 October 2004
© Patrick Devlin 2004
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