Creagh (Bally Andrew)

This family were established in county Cork from the 16th century and share a common ancestry with the Brasier Creaghs. In the mid 1740s Michael Creagh of Laurentinum, county Cork, sixth son of John Creagh of Killowen, married as his second wife, Mary Gethin, sister and heiress of Captain Richard Gethin. Their son Arthur married Isabella Bagwell in 1770 and their second son, Reverend John Bagwell Creagh, married Gertrude Miller of Toonagh, county Clare. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their son, Arthur Gethin Creagh, held land in the parish of Quin, county Limerick and in the parishes of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy and Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, county Cork. He and his brother John held land in the county Cork parishes of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow and Liscarroll, barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In August 1801 Michael Creagh, Reverend John Bagwell Creagh and Arthur G. Creagh leased Gooseberry Hill, barony of Duhallow to Timothy Shine. The Shine lease was advertised for sale in July 1861. In the 1870s Arthur Gethin Creagh of Carrahan, Quin, county Clare, owned 330 acres in county Clare, 538 acres in county Cork and 150 acres in county Limerick. Michael Creagh of Laurentinum was an older brother of Reverend John B. Creagh and had an only daughter, Isabella, who married John Singleton of Quinville Abbey, county Clare. In May 1850 the estate near Doneraile and in the city of Cork of Charles Wright the devisee in trust of Michael Creagh, deceased, was advertised for sale. In July 1853 an estate of 2,339 acres in the baronies of Duhallow and Fermoy again of Charles Wright, devisee in trust of Michael Creagh deceased, was advertised for sale. This estate included the houses Bettyville, Spring Grove and Hermitage. The representatives of Michael Creagh, Doneraile, owned 734 acres in county Cork in the 1870s.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Laurentinum	Kilbrack	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R622 075 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Kilbrack	Kilbrack	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R615 072 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Kilbrack Cottage	Kilbrack	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R625 080 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
The Hermitage	Ballyandrew	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R610 062 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Ballyellis	Ballyellis	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: W571 978 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80
Bettyville	Bettyville	Castlemagner	Kanturk	Greenane 164	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: R408 025 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 73
Spring Grove	Spring Grove	Kilroe	Kanturk	Greenane 164	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: R395 037 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 72
Mount Ruby	Killetra	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: W538984 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80

Archival sources

Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Creagh, 3 May 1850, Vol 1 (24), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Shine, 4 July 1861, Vol 62 (48), MRGS 39/031, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Burke), Wright & Creagh, 25 July 1853, Vol 35; National Library of Ireland
Confirmation of arms to the descendants of Arthur Gethin Creagh of Laurentinum, Co. Cork and to his grandson, Michael Creagh of Dublin, Dec. 22, 1854. GO Ms.108, pp.43-4 ; National Library of Ireland
Land Judges rental of the estates in Duhallow Barony, Co. Cork of John W. B. Creagh, for sale, Nov. 1, 1905. M. 5475 ; National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parishes of Doneraile & Mallow; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 106
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 108
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 52 (Ballyandrew), 65 (Kilbrack)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 227 (Kilbrack)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 478 (parish of Doneraile), II, 338-339 (Bally Ellis)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 233 (Laurentinum)

Modern printed sources

WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 83
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 117-118
MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 285-289
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 199, 217-218, 239
''Mallow Field Club Jnl'': HUMPHREYS, J, O'SULLIVAN, M & SMITH, M. Creagh houses of Doneraile, part I. XXXI (2013), pp.157-167.