I found the list of Creggan placenames really interesting particularly the differences in meaning for some words.They use Cappagh to denote wild country - I use it for a tilled field. They use Annagh for a ford or plain - I use it for a bog or marshland. And most interesting of all is that they use Ross to mean pleasant. That would change the meaning of many placenames around Ireland!

I do not (yet) have a copy of this tome but I do have a comparison of the descriptions somewhere in my archives.

By the way, the page is now located at http://gregoryology.com/genealogy/places-ireland/county-armagh/creggan-townlands/

Cheers

I believe that my definitions were picked up from this website: http://www.devlin-family.com/timelinetownlandnames.htm I spot checked a couple and the definitions seemed to match. Until I founf this thread!

Any comments will be very helpful. I will update accordingly.

For the record, I just discovered that my family is from Clonalig and are still there after 200 years.

http://gregoryology.com/wp-content/themes/gregoryology/images/CregganTown1.jpg

Can I remove the images from my server? I asume you copied them by now.

Thanks

The 1st web address has Donaldson's ideas, minus his attempts at Irish
spellings, which shed soem light on the translations offered. As noted, many
of them are not reliable. Fr Murray's are much better. If only more of our own
database were properly available!