Craughwell
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps from Irish creach (“plunder, raid”) + maol (“bare hill”).
Proper noun
editCraughwell (countable and uncountable, plural Craughwells)
- A small town in Connacht, County Galway, Ireland.
- A habitational surname from Irish.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Craughwell is the 2662nd most common surname in Ireland, belonging to 156 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Craughwell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 381.