County Roscommon and Croghan

We've made huge research progress this year finding documentation relating to our Crown family in County Leitrim.  But we have at least one account that Annie Crown Connors told her granddaughter that the Crown family came from County Roscommon.  In looking at a map, it's immediately clear that the two counties are next door to each other.

Then I found the following snippet on a message board:

The surname Crown or Crowne as it is more commonly spelled in Church records is not a common Irish name but originates from Co. Leitrim. I believe it came from the hill of Croghan on the Leitrim border.

Sure enough, there is a village called Croghan in County Roscommon, which is very near to the border with County Leitrim.  Click here to see the article I wrote with related findings, and here for more confirmation about the Croghan name in County Roscommon.

Indeed, I found a marriage record for a Patrick Croughan to Ann Quin in Laughlin (Loughlynn?), Roscommon, Ireland in 1819. I don't know if this record has anything to do with us, but it at least shows people in County Roscommon with a surname that sounds like CROWN. I think it is entirely possible, if not probable, that our Crown family in County Leitrim originated in County Roscommon, but that would be pretty far back, around the mid-1700s. More research would be required.