placenamesMoone
Maoin
Lewis recorded Ebenezer Shackleton’s milling enterprise beside a growing residence.
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
- Maoin · Irish · main form
- Moone · English · main form
Place & story
Milling in 1837
Ebenezer Shackleton owned extensive mills at Moone in 1837. Samuel Lewis put their annual grinding capacity at fifteen thousand bags of flour, a statement of capacity rather than a recorded year’s output. Shackleton was then building an adjoining residence in an Elizabethan style; Lewis’s account does not establish its completion date. The parish also supplied grey building stone from local quarries. These industrial activities accompanied a landscape largely devoted to tillage, with pasture also noted, along the Dublin–Carlow mail-coach route. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Coordinates
- 53.00446, -6.86969
- Mapped area
- 29.39 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1209 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moone, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-10-23. How this page was prepared.