The history of Craughwell
Forts, the house of 1750, Raftery, St Colman's, the Land War, the railway. 6 moments, in order.
- Early times
Forts and souterrains
Ringfort and souterrain sites lie in Craughwell, Ballymore and Killora, where a medieval church and graveyard also stand. The name may be plunder-hill, where raided cattle were kept, or crag-hill, or, as P. W. Joyce guessed, garlic wood.
- About 1750
Ballymore Park
The Georgian house in Ballymore townland was built.
- 1835
Raftery's grave
Antoine Ó Raifteirí, born in Mayo in 1779, was buried at Killeenin; Augusta Lady Gregory put the commemorative slab over him in 1900.
- About 1840
St Colman's
The Catholic church was built.
- May 1881
The Land War
The farmer Peter Dempsey was shot dead on his way to Mass with his young daughters over a dispute about a vacant farm, one of several violent incidents around the village.
- 2022
About 1,000 people
The census count for a village east of Galway on the R446, with a station on the Western Rail Corridor.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Craughwell", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.