Celebrating Creggan Graveyard

Celebrating Creggan Graveyard in stories, music and poetry with Úna Walsh and Aodh MacMurchaidh.

In 1480, the O'Neill's of Tyrone invaded South Armagh and conquered the Barony of the Fews. In the middle of this wooded wilderness, lay the townland of Creggan and here they built their church. At the Cromwellian confiscation the O'Neill land was taken and the present Church of Ireland was built in 1759.

Creggan Graveyard is the resting place of all creeds and classes and from all walks of life - princes, poets, priests, parsons to paupers - divided, perhaps in life, united again in death.

Úrchil a' Chreagáin
"One pledge I ask you only, one promise, O Queen divine!
And then I will follow faithful - still follow each step of thine,
Should I die in some far-off land, in our wanderings east and west,
In the fragrant clay of Creggan let my weary heart have rest."
Art MacCumhaigh