placenamesHaystown
Carn Ulfa
The local name Hayes connects this settlement with the history of its parent townland.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Carn Ulfa · Irish · main form · validated name
- Haystown · English · main form
- Hayes · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Hayes House
Meath County Council’s protected-structures record identifies Hayes in Haystown and Carnuff Little as a country house dating to about 1770. Its principal elevation has seven bays, with two storeys over a basement. The entry includes the outbuildings and gate lodge as parts of the historic property. [2]
An earlier place of worship
Beauparc parish’s history, drawing on Dean Cogan, records a mud-walled, thatched chapel in Hayestown. It places this within the earlier sequence of local Catholic places of worship, before a subsequent chapel at Seneschalstown. The account preserves evidence of a modest building quite different from the surviving country house. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Skreen
- Civil parish
- Ardmulchan
- Coordinates
- 53.67162, -6.60780 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1375335 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Haystown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Meath County Development Plan 2021–2027, Appendix 6, Record of Protected Structures, entry 90982 · Meath County Council
- Parish History — Beauparc · Beauparc Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.