Craughwell

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Irish creach (“plunder, raid”) + maol (“bare hill”).

Proper noun

Craughwell (countable and uncountable, plural Craughwells)

1. A small town in Connacht, County Galway, Ireland.
2. A habitational surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Craughwell is the 2662^nd most common surname in Ireland, belonging to 156 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Craughwell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 381.