placenamesMossley
Maslaí
Flax spinning shaped Mossley’s industrial village before the mill became a civic and cultural centre.
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
- Maslaí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Mossley · English · main form
Place & story
A mill village
Flax spinning began on the Mossley site in 1834. Water and steam powered its machinery. After buying the mill in 1859, the Campbell family expanded the works and developed the village with workers’ housing, a school and a sports pavilion. [2]
A new public life
Newtownabbey Borough Council bought the former mill in 1996, rescuing it from demolition and beginning its restoration. The first phase opened in June 2000. Theatre at The Mill followed on 30 January 2010, with an opening concert by the Ulster Orchestra. Its 400 seats brought live performance into the former industrial complex. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Lower
- Civil parish
- Carnmoney
- Within
- Ballyhenry
- Coordinates
- 54.69567, -5.95243 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135827 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mossley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue: Our History · Theatre at The Mill / Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
- Our Story · Theatre at The Mill / Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.