Craughwell

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Craughwell
Creachmhaoil
Village and townland
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The R446 regional road passes through Craughwell
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Craughwell
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°13′34″N8°43′59″W / 53.2261°N 8.7331°W / 53.2261; -8.7331
Country Ireland
Province Connacht
County County Galway
Elevation
62 m (203 ft)
Population
 (2022) [1]
1,034
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference M510197

Craughwell (historically Creaghmoyle, from Irish : Creachmhaoil) [2] is a village and townland in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2022 census, the village had a population of approximately 1,000 people. [1]

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Craughwell is located on the R446 regional road, approximately 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Athenry and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Loughrea. It is served by Craughwell railway station on the Western Railway Corridor. [3] [4]

Etymology

A number of derivations are given for the meaning of the Irish language place name Creachmhaoil or Creamhchoill. [5]

In one derivation, the name is given as being composed of two Irish words: creach (meaning "plunder") and maoil (a hill). It is suggested that this is a reference to a place where herds of plundered cattle (the targets of thefts and cattle raids amongst the Gaels) were placed and kept. [5]

A further etymology of creach is related to craig, and creag, and the English word crag , referring to a rock or the crest of a hill; and maol, a word referring to a round-shaped hill or mountain, bare of trees. [5]

Patrick Weston Joyce, the pioneer of Irish placename studies, also speculated that the name in Irish was Creamhchoill, meaning 'garlic wood'. [5] He was unaware of the local spelling and pronunciation but confirmed in a later work that the village was called Creachmhaoil in Irish.[ citation needed ]

The name Craughwell is also used as a surname, Ó Creachmhaoil , often anglicised as Craughwell, Croughwell or Crockwell. The surname was largely unknown outside of the southeast of County Galway until the end of the 19th century when émigrés established themselves in Barbados, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, Massachusetts.[ citation needed ]

History

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Saint Colman's Catholic Church was built c. 1840

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ring fort and souterrain sites in the townlands of Craughwell, Ballymore and Killora. [6] A ruined medieval church and graveyard is also located in Killora townland. [6] The current Roman Catholic church in Craughwell, Saint Colman's Catholic Church, was built c. 1840. [7] Ballymore Park, a Georgian country house in Ballymore townland, was built c. 1750. [8]

The poet Antoine Ó Raifteiri (born in County Mayo in 1779), was buried in Killeenin near Craughwell in 1835. [9] A commemorative slab was erected over his grave, in 1900, by Augusta Lady Gregory. [9]

During the Land War of the late 19th century, there were a number of violent incidents in the area around Craughwell. [10] [11] In May 1881, for example, a farmer named Peter Dempsey was shot and killed, on his way to Mass with his young daughters, because of a dispute over his tenancy of a vacant farm. [12] [13]

Amenities

The community sporting facilities in the village include the grounds of Craughwell GAA, which has three pitches and a ball wall.[ citation needed ] The primary school has an all-weather astroturf track and a walking trail.[ citation needed ] Craughwell AC has an 8-acre park with an 800m trail surrounding a 400m running track. Just outside the village, Coleman's Park has outdoor soccer pitches and a gravel 400m running track. [14]

Transport

The R446 road connecting Galway City to Kinnegad in County Westmeath passes through the village, 24 kilometres east of Galway and 10 kilometers west of Loughrea. Prior to the construction of the M6 motorway, the R446 formed part of the main N6 road connecting Dublin and Galway.[ citation needed ]

Craughwell has a City Link stop on the Galway-Dublin commuter route, [15] while Healy Bus also operate commuter services between Loughrea and Galway. [16]

As part of Iarnród Éireann’s Western Railway Corridor project, under the Transport 21 plan, Iarnród Éireann reopened Craughwell railway station in 2010, having built a new single platform facility and car park close to the original site. There are five trains in each direction daily. [3] The original station was opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later part of the Great Southern and Western Railway, on the line from Athenry to Limerick. [4]

Notable people

Statue of Antoine O Raifteiri in Craughwell Raiftearai.jpg
Statue of Antoine Ó Raifteiri in Craughwell

Notable people associated with the village include:

See also

Further reading

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