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Creeslough (/ˈkrslɒx/ KREES-lokh,[2] locally /ˈkrslɑː/ KREES-lah;[3] Irish: An Craoslach [ənˠ ˈkˠɾˠiːsˠˌlˠax])[2] is a village in County Donegal, Ireland, 12 kilometres (7 mi) south of Dunfanaghy on the N56 road. The small village overlooks an arm of Sheephaven Bay, with the population of the surrounding area engaged mainly in agriculture, mostly livestock rearing.[citation needed]

Creeslough
An Craoslach
Village
Creeslough's main street
Creeslough
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 55°07′19″N 7°54′25″W
CountryIreland
ProvinceUlster
CountyCounty Donegal
BaronyKilmacrenan
Population
 (2016)[1]
393
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
  Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceC059305
Websitewww.creeslough.com

Name


The English name 'Creeslough' (occasionally 'Cresslough') is an anglicised respelling of an Irish name, the modern official spelling of which is An Craoslach (including the definite article An). According to the Placenames Database of Ireland, this means "the gorge".[2] Under the Official Languages Act 2003, only the Irish name of Creeslough electoral division has official status, because part of it is in the Gaeltacht,[4] whereas Creeslough village is outside the Gaeltacht and its English name has equal status.[5] Craoslach is usually interpreted as craos+loch;[3][6][7] where loch means "lake", while craos literally means "gullet, throat" and metaphorically can mean either a gap or gluttony.[8] In the 1830s, John O'Donovan glossed the name as "Craoslaoch [sic] swallowing lake; throat lake",[9][10] and Patrick Weston Joyce glossed it in 1875 as "Craos-loch — a lake that swallows up everything".[7] In 2000, Lawrence Donegan wrote:[6]

Craos Loch in Irish, meaning Throat Lake or Gullet Lake. Why? Because there was a tiny lake at the top of the village that gathered a lot of rainwater from the surrounding hills and leaked only a little away through a tiny stream. Where did all the water go? It had been swallowed by the hungry lake, obviously. Why not call the village Hungry Lake? It wasn't poetic enough.

Suggested alternative derivations are craos+lacha[n] "duck[s] throat",[9] or crioslach (or variant críoslach)[11] "limit, border".[9][10][12] Niall Ó Dónaill advised the Placenames Branch in 1962 that, although there was evidence that Crioslach was the older Irish form, it had long been changed to An Craoslach.[13]


History


Evidence of ancient settlement in the area include a number of ringfort, holy well, enclosure and burial sites in the townlands of Creeslough, Killoughcarran and Masiness.[14] Nearby Doe Castle, a tower house with a surrounding bawn, dates from the 1420s.[15]

An explosion at Creeslough at 15:20 IST on 7 October 2022 destroyed a shop and Applegreen petrol station, as well as the adjoining apartment block, resulting in ten deaths and multiple injuries.[16][17]


Places of interest


Muckish Mountain in the Derryveagh range, near Creeslough
Muckish Mountain in the Derryveagh range, near Creeslough
St. Michael's Church, designed by Liam McCormick in 1971
St. Michael's Church, designed by Liam McCormick in 1971

Nearby places of interest include:


Transport


Creeslough railway station opened on 9 March 1903, closed for passenger traffic on 3 June 1940, and finally closed altogether on 6 January 1947.[23]


Education


A view of the countryside around Creeslough with Muckish mountain in the background
A view of the countryside around Creeslough with Muckish mountain in the background

The area around Creeslough is served by three primary schools:


People





See also



References


  1. Census data from printed reports (1881 C. 3204-IV p. 382; 1911 Cd. 6051-IV p. 20 No. 31; 1926 Vol. 1 Table 11 p. 125 No. 31; 1936 Vol. 1 Table 13 p. 138; 1946 Vol. 1 Table 13 p. 134; 1951 Vol. 1 Table 14 p. 144; 1956 Vol. 1 Table 14 p. 142; 1961 Vol. 1 Table 8 p. 19; 1971 Vol. 1 Table 8 p. 35; 1986 Vol. 1 Table 10 p. 70) and from CSO interactive tables (1996 A0112; 2006 C0105; 2016 E2016).
  2. "An Craoslach / Creeslough [town]". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  3. McKay, Patrick (1999). A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast. p. 49.
  4. S.I. 2004/872, Schedule Part 7 Section A Chapter 4 No. 12
  5. S.I. 2005/59, Schedule Section D Chapter 2 No. 38
  6. Donegan, Lawrence (2000). No news at Throat Lake. New York: Pocket Books. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-671-78540-6.
  7. Joyce, P. W. (1902) [1875]. The origin and history of Irish names of places. Vol. 2. London, New York / M. H. Gill: Longmans Green / Dublin. p. 402.
  8. Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977). "craos". Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla. Retrieved 8 October 2022 via teanglann.ie.
  9. Placenames Branch file on Creeslough, card 2
  10. "An Craoslach/Creeslough [townland]". logainm.ie. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  11. Ní Dhomhnaill, Cáit (1970). "Observations on Vowel Lengthening in Irish". Studia Celtica. Cardiff. 5: 89–93.
  12. O'Reilly, Edward (1864). "crioslach". An Irish-English Dictionary. Dublin: J. Duffy.
  13. Placenames Branch file on Creeslough, card 5
  14. Lacey, Brian, ed. (1983). Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century. Lifford: Donegal County Council.
  15. "Doe Castle". heritageireland.ie. Office of Public Works. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  16. Sherlock, Cillian (7 October 2022). "At least three people dead after explosion at service station in Donegal". RTÉ News. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  17. "Creeslough: Ten dead after Donegal explosion". BBC News. 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  18. "THE MASSROCK". www.creeslough.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  19. "Walking Ireland's Iconic Mountains – Number 2: Muckish". 20 January 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  20. The Glover Highlander Walk
  21. "St. Michael's Church". www.dunfanaghy.info. Archived from the original on 22 February 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  22. "Liam McCormick - Father of modern Irish church architecture". www.culturenorthernireland.org. 7 April 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  23. "Creeslough station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  24. "Department of Education". Archived from the original on 6 May 2015.
  25. Zibart, Eve (2000). "No News At Throat Lake BookPage review". www.bookpage.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  26. McFaul, Anna Marie (10 January 2012). "Bridie Gallagher: Ireland's 'first international pop star'". BBC News. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  27. Sheridan, Kathy (9 November 1996). "Flamboyant life and death of a billionaire butler". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  28. Gallagher, Bridie. "Noreen Bawn". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  29. McNulty, Chris (6 March 2019). "All-Ireland winner Martin McElhinney pulls out of Donegal panel". Retrieved 6 March 2019. ...the 30-year-old Creeslough man said in January.



На других языках


- [en] Creeslough

[ru] Крислох

Крислох[2] (англ. Creeslough; ирл. An Craoslach) — деревня в Ирландии, находится в графстве Донегол (провинция Ольстер).



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