Creagh/Brasier Creagh

In 1779 Alderman Kilner Brooke Brasier of Rivers and Ballyvoir, Lisard, county Limerick married Mary, daughter and heiress of John Creagh, medical doctor, of Creagh Castle, Doneraile, county Cork. They had five sons and five daughters. Their second son, John, assumed the additional name of Creagh on succeeding to Creagh Castle in 1802. In 1801 he had married Elizabeth, only child and heiress of Charles Widenham of Castle Widenham, Castletownroche, county Cork. They had an only daughter who married Henry Mitchell Smyth of the Ballynatray, county Waterford family. John's brothers, William Johnson Brasier Creagh and George Washington Brasier Creagh, succeeded him respectively at Creagh Castle. At the time of Griffith's Valuation George W. Brasier Creagh's estate was located in the county Cork parishes of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Dromdowney, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Donaghmore, barony of East Muskerry and Castletownroche, Doneraile and Wallstown, barony of Fermoy. In July 1858 lands belonging to George W. Brasier Creagh in the north suburbs of Cork city, in the liberties of Limerick city and head rent of 1,785 acres in the barony of Glenarought, county Kerry, were advertised for sale. In January 1868 land leased to George Meyler at South Killowen, barony of Duhallow, by George W. Brasier Creagh was advertised for sale. George Washington Brasier Creagh owned 2,873 acres in county Cork in the 1870s.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Woodville	Ballyhoura	Imphrick	Mallow	Imprick 239	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R555 139 OS Sheet: 8 Discovery map: 73
Creagh Castle	Castlesaffron	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R620 071 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Crobeg	Castlesaffron	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R618 063 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Cromore	Castlesaffron	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R623 061 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Castle Widenham [Blackwater Castle]	Castlewidenham	Castletownroche	Fermoy	Castletownroche 130	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R686 021 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73
Saffron Hill Cottage	Croaghnacree	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R604 061 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Creagh, 2 July 1858, Vol 53 (11), MRGS 39/027, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Meyler, 31 Jan 1868, Vol 88 (25), MRGS 39/043, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives 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
W.B. Scott, solicitor's collection, includes re land transactions of the Creagh family of Doneraile, Mountlong & Creagh Castle & associated families, 18th & 19th centuries. Small Accs Index 76; National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Doneraile; Cork County Library
Account of the origins of the Creagh family.MS 4600; National Library of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 57 (Castlesaffron)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 478 (parish of Doneraile)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 138 (Creagh Castle), 140 (Crobeg - George Stawell, Cromore - Rowland Campion)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 119
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] : 52
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 243 (Castlesaffron)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxv, 187 (Creagh Castle)

Modern printed sources

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: 111-112, 131-132, 134-135, 367-368
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXV, 2nd Series (1919), 194-195 (Saffron Hill)
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXVIII, 2nd Series (1922), 326-331 (Woodville)
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 79 (Castle Widenham)
''Mallow Field Club Jnl'': HUMPHREYS, J, O'SULLIVAN, M & SMITH, M. Creagh houses of Doneraile, part I. XXXI (2013), pp.157-167