placenamesBoardsmill
Muileann an Chláir
A corn-milling settlement near Trim with a long history of schooling, parish patronage and hurling.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Muileann an Chláir · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Boardsmill · English · main form
Place & story
A mill and a small settlement
The 1836 Ordnance Survey description placed Boardsmill at the northern end of Brannockstown townland. Its buildings included a corn mill supplied by a stream, a Catholic chapel and a handful of houses. Noel French’s local history reproduces this description, which gives a useful picture of the settlement before later institutions developed. William and James Flood held the corn mill in the nineteenth-century valuation. [2]
St Brigid’s and its benefactors
St Brigid’s Church was already recorded as a chapel in 1836; Lewis described it the following year as a modern building. Its later fittings preserve individual acts of patronage. Owen Farrell of Harcourt Lodge donated the marble altar in 1921. Three holy-water fonts commemorate the parish priest Michael Woods, who died in November 1920. [2]
From schoolhouse to community hall
The national school opened in 1840 after a local committee obtained approval and bought a site. Its successor building was opened by Education Minister Richard Mulcahy on 4 October 1954, with Taoiseach John A. Costello also present. The old school found another public purpose when it became a community centre in 1985. [2]
Hurling before formal affiliation
Boardsmill’s club history distinguishes its formal affiliation in 1944 from earlier teams: it traces championship participation to 1912 and a semi-final appearance in 1913. The club won its first junior hurling championship in 1947 and its first senior title in 1958. Its strongest senior run included three consecutive championships in 1973, 1974 and 1975. The club bought ten acres from the Land Commission in 1975, establishing its own ground after years using farmers’ fields. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Civil parish
- Trim
- Within
- Brannockstown
- Coordinates
- 53.52127, -6.84417
- Logainm ID
- 106015 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Boardsmill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Towards a History of Boardsmill · Noel French, Meath History Hub
- History · Boardsmill GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-09. How this page was prepared.