Family Creagh In Ireland

This family were established in county Cork from the 16th century and share a common ancestry with the Brasier Creaghs. In the mid 1740s Michael Creagh of Laurentinum, county Cork, sixth son of John Creagh of Killowen, married as his second wife Mary Gethin, sister and heiress of Captain Richard Gethin. Their son Arthur married Isabella Bagwell in 1770 and their second son the Reverend John Bagwell Creagh married Gertrude Miller of Toonagh, county Clare. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their son Arthur Gethin Creagh held land in the parish of Quin, county Limerick and in the parishes of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy and Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, county Cork and he and his brother John held land in the county Cork parishes of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow and Liscarroll, barony of Orrery and Kilmore

Found in Landed Estates Database

''Burke's Irish Family Records'' traces the descent of the Creaghs of Killowen, county Cork, from Christopher Creagh, Mayor of Cork in 1541. John Creagh medical doctor of Creagh Castle, Doneraile, county Cork, was the second son of John Creagh of Killowen who married in 1695 Elinor Barret. John Creagh MD married as his second wife Judith Shuldham of Dunmanway, county Cork and they had an only daughter Mary who married in 1779 Alderman Kilner Brooke Brasier of county Limerick. Their second son inherited Castle Creagh.