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Family Names of Creggan Parish

1957

The following table shows the incidence, and areas of highest concentration, of the most frequent family names (from a total of 299 unique names and 1293 individual householders) recorded in Creggan Parish in the revised Second Northern Ireland Revaluation 1956/57. The 32 family names (10.7% of the total) account for 569 (44.4%) of the total families.

Only those with houses in the townland have been taken into account for this table which, was 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
Hearty 39 13 Cregganbane (7), Dorsey (6), Clarnagh (5)
Hughes 35 17 Crossmaglen town (12)
McShane 34 21 Crossmaglen town (5)
Quinn 29 16 Cullyhanna Little (7)
Murphy 25 11 Cregganduff (5), Carnally (4), Lurgancullenboy (4), Tullydonnell Gage (4)
Duffy 22 12 Crossmaglen town (5),Teer (5)
Carragher 21 11 Cullyhanna Big (4), Cappagh (3), Sheetrim (3), Tullyard (3)
Conlon 21 14 Mounthill (5), Cornonagh (3)
McCreesh 21 13 Carrickamone (5)
Donaghy 20 10 Cornonagh (4), Clarbane (3), Crossmaglen town(3)
Kelly 18 12 Ummeracam Johnston (4)
Martin 18 8 Crossmaglen town(9)
McKeown 18 12 Lissaraw (3)
Morris 17 8 Creevekeeran (7)
Hanratty 16 10 Rathkeelan (5), Crossmaglen town(3)
Mackin 16 6 Dorsey (6), Tullynavall (6)
Boyle 15 11 Crossmaglen town(3)
Byrne 15 8 Annaghgad (4)
Grant 15 10 Crossmaglen (3), Tullydonnell O'Callaghan (3)
Donnelly 13 9 Creevekeeran (3), Tullynavall (3)
McConville 13 8 Crossmaglen town(5)
Morgan 13 10 Crossmaglen town(4)
Traynor 13 8 Cornonagh (3)
Keenan 12 8 Tullynavall (4)
Loy 12 6 Dorsey (5)
McCoy 12 7 Carnally (3), Moybane (3)
Burns 11 5 Ummaracam Johnston (5)
Cumiskey 11 3 Crossmaglen town(9)
Loye 11 8 Cregganduff (2), Liscalgat (2), Moybane (2)
McCann 11 9 Ummaracam Johnston (3)
Reel 11 5 Carnally (3), Dorsey (3)
Rooney 11 8 Tullynavall (4)

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Last Updated on 11 October 2004
© Patrick Devlin 2004
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