placenamesMaganey
Maigh Géine
A small Tudor-style building recalls the arrival and departure of railway services.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Géine · Irish · main form · validated name
- Maganey · English · main form
Place & story
From station to house
Maganey station opened in 1846 on the Great Southern and Western Railway’s Cherryville Junction–Kilkenny branch. It closed in 1963 and was subsequently converted into a house, with extensions around 1970. The architectural inventory describes a modest Tudor-style building whose original features included a pointed platform doorway, stone-coped gables and a round window in the northern gable. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Civil parish
- Dunmanoge
- Coordinates
- 52.91107, -6.92965 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1167049 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Maganey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Maganey Railway Station: NIAH 11903904 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-01. How this page was prepared.