Shane Crosagh Ó Maoláin

John Mullan, more commonly known as Shane Crossagh O'Mullan, was an Irish rapparee/outlaw, who was executed in the 1720s at the Diamond, in Derry city.

Background Shane Crossagh and his family, lived in Tullanee, Faughanvale, in the barony of Keenaght, County Londonderry. More specifically Tullanee is a small townland beside Eglinton, County Londonderry, and Tullanee is where the modern-day Faughanvale Presbyterian Church resides. Indeed, the founding of the Church occurs a few years after Shane and his sons hanging. Shanes's father, Donal, and the rest of the family were evicted when a bailiff's son was insulted in Donal's house.

Crossagh His nickname, Crossagh, came from the Irish word "Crosach" meaning "pock-marked". It was an ancestral family name, and as such used by his father, probably derived from an ancestor who was scarred as a result of the pox. Possibly it was originally used to distinguish them from other Ó Maoláin's.