Crosserlough
{{Short description|Civil parish in County Cavan, Ireland}}
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Crosserlough ({{irish place name|Cill Droim Feartáin|church of the ridge of the burial mound}}),{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/373.aspx | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | website = logainm.ie | title = Cill Droim Feartáin / Crosserlough | accessdate = 11 March 2025}} historically known as Cros Ar Loch, is a large civil parish in southern County Cavan in Ireland.{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/cavan/crosserlough/| website = townlands.ie | title = Civil Parish of Crosserlough, Co. Cavan | accessdate = 11 March 2025 }} It is located between Ballyjamesduff and Lough Sheelin. The parish consists of the village of Kilnaleck, the townland of Drumkilly and the small settlement of Crosserlough. The latter is at the northern edge of the eponymous townland.
History
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Historical sites in Crosserlough include dolmen (portal tomb) sites in Duffcastle and Kildrumferton and several ring forts throughout the parish. There is also a mass rock from the time of the Penal Laws in Lehery. Kill Cemetery is associated with a number of folktales, including the shooting of a priest for saying mass during the Penal era.{{fact|date=May 2020}}
Facilities
There are three Catholic churches in Crosserlough, which is a Catholic parish in the Diocese of Kilmore. These include St Mary's Church (the main parish church built in 1888) in the townland of Cullow, in the Crosserlough area.{{cite web|url = http://crosserloughparish.ie/?page_id=18 | website = crosserloughparish.ie | title = Crosserlough - Our Three Churches}} The other two Catholic churches are in the village of Kilnaleck (St Patrick's) and in Drumkilly (St Joseph's). There is also a Church of Ireland church, at Kildrumferton, which was rebuilt in 1812.{{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/K/Kildrumferton-Castlerahan-Cavan.php | chapter = Kildrumferton | title = A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland | editor-first = Samuel | editor-last = Lewis | publisher = Lewis | date = 1837 | via = libraryireland.com | quote = Kildrumferton, or Crosserlough, a parish [..] The [Established] church is a very neat structure, rebuilt in 1812 [..] The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, but is commonly called Crosserlough; there is a large and well-built chapel at Drumkeely, and the chapel at Crosserlough has lately [1837] been rebuilt }}
The national (primary) schools in the parish are located at Kilnaleck, Drumkilly and Crosserlough.{{fact|date=March 2025}} There are also several pubs, grocery shops, a post office, a pharmacy, a butcher's shop, a garage, barbers, drapery shop, a number of takeaway restaurants, a hairdresser, a beautician and a car dealership in Kilnaleck.{{fact|date=May 2020}}
Sport
The local Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club is Crosserlough GFC. The club has won the Cavan Senior Football Championship on several occasions, including 7 back-to-back titles from 1966 to 1972.{{cite web|url = https://hoganstand.com/Cavan/ClubTitles | website = hoganstand.com | title = Club Titles - Cavan | accessdate = 11 March 2025 }} Crosserlough also fields a Ladies Gaelic football team, which won the Cavan Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2021.{{cite web|url = https://www.anglocelt.ie/2021/10/12/crosserlough-reclaim-keating-cup-with-final-success/| work = Anglo Celt | title = Crosserlough reclaim Keating Cup with final success | date = 12 October 2021 | accessdate = 11 March 2025 }} Crosserlough GFC has its grounds outside Kilnaleck village.{{cite web | url = https://crosserlough.gaa.ie/contact/ | website = crosserlough.gaa.ie | title = Crosserlough GFC - Contact | accessdate = 11 March 2025 }} Innyvale Athletic Club is also based in Kilnaleck.{{cite web|url = https://www.innyvaleac.com/about-us | title = Innyvale Athletics Club - About Us | website = innyvaleac.com | accessdate = 11 March 2025 }}
People
- John Comiskey, a Chicago-based Democratic politician, and father of Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox in the early part of the 20th century, was born here in 1826 and emigrated to the US in the mid-19th century.{{cite book |publisher=Sports Publishing | location=New York |title=Turning the Black Sox White: The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey | first=Tim| last=Hornbaker | date=4 March 2014 | isbn=978-1613216385 }}