placenamesMount Temple
An Grianán
Ice-age deposits shape the wider district, while a surviving clerical residence predates the present church.
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 Grianán · Irish · main form
- Mount Temple · English · main form
Place & story
The ridge beneath the landscape
The Mount Temple esker crosses several townlands in this division, including Creevebeg, Carnfyan, Labaun and Tullybane. Geological Survey Ireland describes sand and gravel deposited beneath retreating ice about 14,000 years ago. Near Mount Temple village, a single gravel ridge gives way to irregular hummocks. These deposits form part of a much longer system extending through neighbouring counties. [2]
The older parochial house
North of Corpus Christi church stands a two-storey parochial house dated to around 1900 by the architectural inventory. Its central porch has chamfered corners and a hipped roof supported on brackets. Surviving timber sash windows have distinctive horizontal divisions at ground level. The inventory identifies the house as earlier than the church's rebuilding in 1932. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mount Temple. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mount Temple Esker, Westmeath Geological Site Report,2019 · Meehan et al., Geological Survey Ireland
- Parochial house, Tullaghanshanlin, NIAH15403008 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2013-11-01. How this page was prepared.