Cranaghan

Cranaghan is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Loughtee Lower, County Cavan, Ireland.

The townland name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic placename Crannachan which means ‘Woodland’.

The earliest surviving mention of the townland is on the 1609 Ulster Plantation map of the Barony of Loughtee, where it is spelled Granchinah.

On 25 January 1627 a grant was made of two poles of Granchynagh, or Craynkyney, and Cronaghan to Thomas Groves, the Rector or Vicar of the parish of Dromlaghan.

The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland- Kane, Reilly, Story, Green, Taylor, Brady, Dolan, McGauran, Laurence, Shewell, Corry, Ross, Gillon, McIlroy, Rooney.

There is a large limestone quarry in the land, much used for building and agricultural purposes.

[10] In the Dúchas Folklore Collection, Mrs Reilly in 1938 relates a treasure story that occurred in Cranaghan.