placenamesCranagill
Crannaigh Ghil
A country house in Cranagill links the Nicholson family with the development of Armagh’s orchards.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Crannaigh Ghil · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cranagill · English · main form
Place & story
An older house remodelled
The official historic-building record identifies Crannagael House in Cranagill townland. It considers the surviving building largely a rebuilding or remodelling of about 1842, incorporating an older property traditionally dated to the 1760s and associated with James Nicholson. The house appears as Cranagill on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834–35. Two former gate lodges have disappeared. The record leaves the original construction date uncertain. [2]
Bringing Bramleys to Armagh
Crannagael’s owners identify Henry Joseph Nicholson as the family member who brought sixty Bramley Seedling trees from Southwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1884. This planting connects the house with the apple-growing history celebrated across County Armagh. In August 2024, the council documented a commemorative planting here involving his descendant John Nicholson and Roger Merryweather, a descendant of the original nursery supplier Henry Merryweather. [3] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland West
- Civil parish
- Tartaraghan
- Coordinates
- 54.44428, -6.59713 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 56691 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cranagill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Crannagael, HB15/02/041, historic-building record · Department for Communities, Northern Ireland
- About Crannagael House: Nicholson family and Bramley trees · Crannagael House
- Historic Bramley apple planting marks return of Armagh Food and Cider Festival, 19 August 2024 · Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
- Cranagill Methodist Church, County Armagh illustration: based on a Cranagill Methodist Church, Portadown by Brian Shaw. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.