placenamesMoone
Maoin
A granite high cross and a nineteenth-century church form two distinctive parts of Moone’s religious heritage.
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 · validated name
- Moone · English · main form
Place & story
The high cross
Moone's granite high cross stands about 5.4 metres high. Its carved panels show biblical episodes including Daniel among the lions, the three children in the fiery furnace, and the loaves and fishes. Animal and bird designs also decorate the stone, making the cross a rich survival of early medieval sculpture. [2]
The Blessed Trinity church
The Catholic Church of the Blessed Trinity stands in the village centre. Built around 1830, it has a T-shaped plan with a nave, transepts and a curved apse. Its restrained exterior contrasts with a decorated plaster ceiling inside. A gateway of locally quarried granite marks the entrance to its grounds. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Civil parish
- Moone
- Within
- Moone
- Coordinates
- 52.97298, -6.82390 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412375 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moone High Cross · Office of Public Works, Heritage Ireland
- Catholic Church of the Blessed Trinity, NIAH 11903606 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.