placenamesCreagh
Créach
Creagh’s modest documented history includes a changing postal connection, a nineteenth-century brass band and the households recorded in the census.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Créach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Creagh · English · main form
Place & story
A rural post office
Ken Smith records Creagh post office by June 1884, routed through Enniskillen from 1916, and closed on 26 May 1999. [2]
Music in the 1890s
A historical directory of Irish brass bands records the formation of Creagh Unionist Brass Band in autumn 1892, with twenty-four members. Henderson Gulliland was an organiser, David Armstrong its instructor and Andrew Savage its bandmaster. Associated with the local Orange lodge, the band was still active in 1895. The entry provides a dated glimpse of organised music-making in the locality. [3]
Seven occupied houses
The 1911 census report counted seven houses in Creagh townland, all inhabited, and thirty-seven residents. Its comparative population figures were thirty-five in 1891 and twenty-six in 1901. The report also recorded forty-two outbuildings and farm steadings, placing these households within a working rural landscape. The figures cover the townland in Aghavea parish, rather than a separately measured village population. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magherastephana
- Civil parish
- Aghavea
- Within
- Creagh
- Coordinates
- 54.37008, -7.39987 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413356 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Creagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- County Fermanagh post offices, updated16 February2022 · Ken Smith, Great Britain Philatelic Society
- Irish brass bands: historical directory, Creagh Unionist Brass Band · Gavin Holman
- Census of Ireland1911: County Fermanagh, Table VII, p.41 · Census Commissioners for Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.