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Craughwell is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in County Galway
County Galway

County Galway is located on the west coast of Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland of Connacht. The county takes its name from the city of Galway....
, Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
. Also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil
Ó Creachmhaoil

'? Creachmhaoil' is an Irish people surname. It was largely unknown outside of the South-East of County Galway, where the village of Craughwell is also found, until the latter end of the 19th Century when emigres established branches of the family which still thrive in Newfoundland and Labrador, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, M...
, though often Anglicised as Craughwell, and Crockwell. The surname was largely unknown outside of the South-East of County Galway
Galway

Galway is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the only city in the province of Connacht in Republic of Ireland. The city is located on the west coast of Ireland....
 until the end of the 19th century when emigres established families which still thrive in Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador

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, Bermuda
Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 kilometres northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 kilometres south of Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
 and Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Berkshire County is a non-governmental county located on the Western Massachusetts edge of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 134,953....
, among other places. Notable bearers of the name include American painter Douglass Crockwell.

The name is composed of two Gaelic words.






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Craughwell is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 in County Galway
County Galway

County Galway is located on the west coast of Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland of Connacht. The county takes its name from the city of Galway....
, Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
. Also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil
Ó Creachmhaoil

'? Creachmhaoil' is an Irish people surname. It was largely unknown outside of the South-East of County Galway, where the village of Craughwell is also found, until the latter end of the 19th Century when emigres established branches of the family which still thrive in Newfoundland and Labrador, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, M...
, though often Anglicised as Craughwell, and Crockwell. The surname was largely unknown outside of the South-East of County Galway
Galway

Galway is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the only city in the province of Connacht in Republic of Ireland. The city is located on the west coast of Ireland....
 until the end of the 19th century when emigres established families which still thrive in Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
, Bermuda
Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 kilometres northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 kilometres south of Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada....
, Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
 and Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Berkshire County is a non-governmental county located on the Western Massachusetts edge of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 134,953....
, among other places. Notable bearers of the name include American painter Douglass Crockwell.

The name is composed of two Gaelic words. Creach, is related to craig, and creag, and the English word crag, and refers to rock (with which word it rhymes), or the bare rock crest of a hill. A maol is a round-shaped hill or mountain, bare of trees. It is Anglicised as 'mull', and is common in Irish and Scottish place names such as the Mull of Kintyre
Mull of Kintyre

The Mull of Kintyre is the most southwesterly section of the long Kintyre Peninsula in southwestern Scotland, approximately 10 miles from Campbeltown....
.

It is located in what was formerly the kingdom of Aidhne
Aidhne

Aidhne also known as, U? Fhiachrach Aidhne, Maigh Aidhne / Maigh nAidhne was the territory of the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne, a tuath located in the south of what is now County Galway in the south of Connacht, Ireland....
.

Gaelic spelling rules require that maol, in certain syntactical arrangements, be lenited: that is, an h is inserted after the first letter, if the first letter is a consonant (and not an l, n, or r). This h makes the preceding consonant silent, or changes its sound (mh, or bh, for instance, are silent or sound like an English v). Gaelic spelling rules also require that, with the first letter lenited, the last vowel should be slender (an i, or an e). As both vowels in maol are broad, an i is inserted after. These two changes alter the sound of maol (rhymes with mull) to mhaoil (rhymes with uell, or well), as in Creachmhaoil (creach + maol). The sound of the two words together sounds, to an English ear, like Crockwell, or Craughwell, and it is Anglicised thus (the Gaelic personal names Seán (John) and Seamus (James) became Iain and Hamish in Scotland by similar means).

The town currently has three pubs, a garda station, and two service stations. The village of Creachmhaoil celebrates its connection with the Gaelic poet Anthony Raferty.

Sport

Craughwell has an , with over 200 juvenile and senior athletes participaring at local, regional and national level and some outstanding athletes.

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