placenamesDrumcroon
Droim Cruithean
A surviving transcription preserves Sarah Thompson’s account of her abduction from Drumcroon in 1734.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Droim Cruithean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drumcroon · English · main form
- Drumcroone · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Sarah Thompson’s account
On 19 November 1734, Sarah Thompson was abducted from her home at Drumcroon, near Coleraine. Her deposition describes armed men led by Roger O’Cahan taking her to another parish and attempting to force a marriage. She recalled a ceremony conducted partly in Irish and partly in English, and being moved repeatedly between hiding places. The Virtual Record Treasury presents her testimony as evidence of the coercion experienced by women targeted for their prospective inheritance. [2]
A local story preserved after 1922
The account survived because Coleraine historian Maxwell Given transcribed it before the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. His notebooks, now held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, preserve material whose originals were lost. Historian Tim Murtagh’s study for the Virtual Record Treasury brings Thompson’s deposition back into view, connecting Drumcroon with both eighteenth-century legal records and the later work of recovering Ireland’s scattered archival evidence. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumcroon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Abduction of an Heiress: The Case of Sarah Thompson 1734 · Tim Murtagh / Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-15. How this page was prepared.