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Crowley and O'Crowley come from Ó Cruadhlaoich, the hard hero, and from the O'Crowley chiefs of Kilshallow in Carbery, West Cork, who held their lands under MacCarthy Reagh. Here the family crest on the Irish National Tartan comes on woven and printed blankets, two accent mugs, a framed ornament and the House of O'Crowley garden flag.
Crowley and O'Crowley are English forms of the Gaelic Ó Cruadhlaoich, "descendant of Cruadhlaoch," a personal name that Rev. Patrick Woulfe glosses as hard-hero. Woulfe gives Crawley as a second Munster spelling, and in spoken Munster Irish he heard the name as Ó Croghallaigh. Choose Crowley or O'Crowley to match the name on the gift: woven blankets are available in both spellings.
The O'Crowleys were a West Cork family whose country, Kilshallow, lay north of the Bandon river across the parishes of Fanlobbus and Kinneigh in the barony of Carbery, close to Dunmanway. Their chief kept his house at Castle Crowley, and the family's 32 plowlands owed a chief rent of £9 4s. 4d. to MacCarthy Reagh, lord of Carbery, in the rental of 1636. The Annals of Inisfallen record that Ragnall Ua Cruadlaích was slain by Eógan Mac Carthaig in 1283. Later bearers include the Fenian captain Peter O'Neill Crowley of Ballymacoda, mortally wounded at Kilclooney Wood in 1867, and Diarmuid Crowley, who sat as a judge of the Dáil courts from 1920.
The Crowley woven cotton blanket, lightweight printed throw, accent mug and silver-framed Christmas ornament carry the Crowley spelling, with the family crest over the Irish National Tartan. For O'Crowley, choose the House of O'Crowley woven blanket, the O'Crowley accent mug or the House of O'Crowley garden flag, made for the porch or front garden.
Trace the road from Castle Crowley to the Bandon river in our history of the Crowley and O'Crowley name.
