Craughwell

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Craughwell
Creachmhaoil

Location

WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates:
53°13′34″N 8°43′59″W / 53.2261, -8.7331

Irish grid reference
M510197

Statistics

62 m

Population (2002)
- Town:
- Environs:

358
1,169

Craughwell (Irish: Creachmhaoil) is a village in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. Also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil, though often Anglicised as Craughwell, and Crockwell. The surname was largely unknown outside of the South-East of County Galway until the end of the 19th century when emigres established families which still thrive in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, Massachusetts, among other places. Notable bearers of the name include American painter Douglass Crockwell.

The name is composed of two Gaelic words. Creach, is related to craig, and creag, and the English word crag, and refers to rock (with which word it rhymes), or the bare rock crest of a hill. A maol is a round-shaped hill or mountain, bare of trees. It is Anglicised as 'mull', and is common in Irish and Scottish place names such as the Mull of Kintyre. The sound of the two word together, therefore, sounds to an English ear like Crockwell, or Craughwell, and it is Anglicised thus (the Gaelic personal names Seán (John) and Seamus (James) became Iain and Hamish in Scotland by similar means).

The town currently has three pubs, a garda station, and two service stations. The village of Creachmhaoil celebrates its connection with the Gaelic poet Anthony Raferty.

[edit] Sport

Craughwell has an athletics club, with over 200 juvenile and senior athletes participaring at local, regional and national level and some outstanding athletes.

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