placenamesRyefield
Achadh an tSeagail
Records of a corn mill and a local school place Ryefield’s rural history alongside a very different event remembered from Easter 1995.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh an tSeagail · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ryefield · English · main form
Place & story
Fields, roads and a corn mill
The 1836 Ordnance Survey name-book account describes Ryefield as part of the Marquis of Headfort’s property. Most of its land was cultivated, with smaller areas of bog and planted woodland. Roads linking Oldcastle with Bailieborough and Kells with Virginia crossed the townland. A corn mill and kiln stood in its southern part, giving the farming landscape a place where harvested grain could be processed. [2]
Ryefield School in the estate papers
Schooling also left a record in the Headfort estate archive. Letters sent by the Reverend Albert E. King in 1898 concerned Ryefield School alongside parish subscriptions and rent. Further correspondence from the Reverend J. T. Webster covered the school between 1900 and 1907. These surviving references connect local education with the clergy and the administration of the surrounding estate. [3]
The Easter gathering of 1995
Over Easter weekend in 1995 a field at Ryefield became the setting for a rave, drawing young people from several parts of Ireland. Garda checkpoints reduced the numbers reaching the site. A public meeting followed at Munterconnaught Community Centre. Thirty years later, The Anglo-Celt returned to its original coverage and interviewed people who remembered the gathering and the local reaction to it. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Civil parish
- Munterconnaught
- Within
- Ryefield
- Coordinates
- 53.78385, -7.05929 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412338 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ryefield. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ryefield: transcription of the 1836 Name Books · Cavan Townlands, transcribing Ordnance Survey name books
- Headfort Estate Papers (Additional), Collection List 179, page 133 · Brian Casey, Avice-Claire McGovern and Eimear Walsh, National Library of Ireland
- One Foot in the Rave: Part 2, 13 October 2025 · Seamus Enright, The Anglo-Celt
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.