Creagh (Ballygarrett)
This branch of the Creagh family are descended from William Creagh, a brother of John Creagh of Killowen, county Cork. William Creagh of Old Town, Shanballymore, county Cork, married Sarah Nagle of Annakissy. In 1803 their son Pierce Creagh [of Rockforest Cottage] married Isabella Leeson and had a son William Creagh of Ballygarrett. William Creagh held land in the parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow and Clenor and Mallow, barony of Fermoy in the early 1850s. In the 1870s William Creagh of Ballygarrett owned 1,124 acres in county Cork.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Ballygarrett | Ballygarrett | Mallow | Mallow | MallowRural 250 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: W588 984
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Springmount | Bearforest Upper | Mallow | Mallow | Mallow Rural 250 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref:
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Rockforest Lodge | Lavally Upper | Rahan | Mallow | Rahan 255 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: W603 985
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Oldtown House (Fermoy) | Carrigaunroe | Templeroan | Mallow | Shanballymore 243 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R670 068
OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 121
- 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
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 129 (Bearforest Upper)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 480 (Rockforest Lodge)
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: 51-52, 290, 315, 337
- ''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). XIII, 2nd Series (1907), 171-176 (Ballygarrett)