- Owen Roe O'Neill's
Ulster Army,
living in clan-based
groupings called "
creaghts" and
driving their herds of
cattle around with the army.
Outside of Ulster...
- agriculture,
especially cattle-raising. Many of the
Gaelic Irish practised "
creaghting" or "booleying", a kind of
transhumance whereby some of them
moved with...
-
where they
developed formations of
landless nomadic creaghts following their cattle-herds. A
creaght was a
grouping of
families that in one body followed...
- had some
influence over Maguire,
giving him
advice and
sheltering his
creaghts on Tyrconnell's borders.
MacGauran was
killed on 3 July [O.S. 23 June]...
-
their churls and calliackes, old
women and
those women who
milked their Creaghts (cows) and
provided their victuals and
other necessaries. So that the killing...
-
Kildare and Louth, in aid of
erection of castles. c. 13 None to
bring creaghts (nomadic cattle), horses, etc., out of
march land (border lands) into land...
- "
creaght" of the sept, the unit of land
under Gaelic law used for the
pasturing and
seasonal droving of the nation's herds.
Governing the
creaghts and...
- O'Donnell and the sons of Owen O'Conor
committed vast
depredations on the
creaghts of Carbury, and on the Mac
Donoughs on this side of Sligo. A
great army...
-
their families,
supply wagons,
baggage carts, livestock, and
nomadic creaghts with
their cattle herds. Of the
fighting men in the group, most were untrained...
-
which latter territory he
brought the Clann-Maurice na-m-Brigh and
their creaghts. The Clann-William Burke, the O'Flahertys, the O'Malleys, the Barretts...
