placenamesMoyne
An Mhaighean
Nineteenth-century education, Saint Mary’s and the changing organisation of Gaelic games connect the village with the wider Moyne-Templetuohy parish.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Mhaighean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moyne · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Moyne records two national schools, at Moyne and Boulabeha, attended by about three hundred children. Both operated in thatched buildings funded by subscriptions. A separate private school taught about forty pupils. The parish also had a constabulary station, an Anglican church built in 1815 and a Catholic chapel which Lewis described as a neat building. His account captures local institutions before the later Saint Mary’s Church, placing the village within a countryside of limestone, farmland and bog. [2]
Saint Mary’s and the older churchyard
Saint Mary’s Catholic Church was built in 1902 in the Gothic Revival style. A seven-bay nave, apse and transepts form its plan, with an open octagonal bellcote projecting above the entrance gable. Rock-faced limestone walls contrast with finely worked dressings around the pointed windows and doors. Statues occupy niches beside the main window, and ornamental iron hinges decorate the timber doors. A medieval church ruin and surrounding graveyards give the new building an older ecclesiastical setting, joining different periods of worship within one group. [3]
Two names, one Gaelic games club
Moyne and Templetuohy’s clubs remained separate for nearly fifty years after the early days of the GAA. In 1936 a Moyne and Templetuohy hurling club affiliated to the county board, alongside a Templetuohy and Moyne football club. The local association secured the Longorchard grounds in 1938 from the estate’s owners. Another Moyne club, Saint Albert’s, existed briefly in the 1950s. The modern Moyne-Templetuohy organisation emerged in 1991 when the separate hurling and football clubs amalgamated, retaining Longorchard as their base. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyne, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Moynetemple, record 22403607 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Moyne-Templetuohy club history · Tipperary GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-04-19. How this page was prepared.