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Creggan, County Armagh. Coordinates: 54°05′04″N 6°34′30″W. Creggan (from Irish an Creagán) [1] is a small village, townland and civil parish near Crossmaglen in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 246 people. It lies within the Newry and Mourne District Council area.
Contae Ard Mhacha is the Irish name; Coontie Armagh[3] and Coontie Airmagh[4] are Ulster Scots spellings. County Armagh (Irish: Contae Ard Mhacha) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It is located in the province of Ulster and adjoins the southern shore of Lough Neagh.
Creggan, County Tyrone. townland. Coordinates: 54°38′56″N 7°02′17″W / 54.649°N 7.038°W / 54.649; -7.038. Creggan townland in 2006. Creggan (Irish: An Creagán[1]) is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East and the civil parish of Termonmaguirk and covers an area ...
Mr Maghnus Monaghan. Organist (s) Mr Aiden Watkins. Parish administrator. Fr Paul Farren. St Eugene's Cathedral (Irish: Ardeaglais Naomh Eugene) is the Roman Catholic cathedral located in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is the "Mother Church" for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Derry, as well as the parish Church of the parish of Templemore.
Carrickmore (from Irish an Charraig Mhór, meaning 'the big rock' [1]) is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East, the civil parish of Termonmaguirk and the Roman Catholic Parish of Termonmaguirc between Cookstown, Dungannon and Omagh. [2] It had a population of 612 in the 2001 Census.
The Diocese of Armagh is the metropolitan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Armagh, the Church of Ireland province that covers the northern half (approximately) of the island of Ireland. The diocese mainly covers counties Louth, Tyrone and Armagh, and parts of Down. The diocesan bishop is also the Archbishop of Armagh, the archbishop of ...
Creggan has experienced a seismic change; long gone are the no-go area and levels of inequality suffered from the 1960s to 1980s. It has seen some redevelopment most noticeably with the redevelopment of the Bishop's Field as a sports and recreation area, [5] the introduction of a play park and the development of a country park and fishery at the old reservoir sites at the edge of the estate.
A 20th century history of the Parish of Creggan notes that, "the 18th century poets of Creggan—O Doirnin, MacAlinden, Oldr, MacArdle, MacCooey, MacVeigh and Dr. Woods — had already begun carving for themselves that niche in the Literary History of Ireland from which they are not likely to be dislodged by any other group of singers."