placenamesMoyne
An Mhaighean
An early nineteenth-century church and a former dispensary and post office preserve the hamlet’s local service role.
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 Mhaighean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moyne · English · main form
Place & story
The parish established in 1813
Moyne’s Church of Ireland parish was formed in 1813 from townlands previously belonging to Hacketstown. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records support from the Board of First Fruits for a glebe house in 1817. Education also depended on outside patronage: Earl Fitzwilliam provided a schoolhouse and land, while the Reverend Mr Wright and the Governors of the Foundling Hospital contributed towards a school attended by about 80 children. These figures concern the wider parish, rather than the hamlet alone. [2]
Saint John’s church
Saint John’s was built in 1815 in the Gothic manner associated with Board of First Fruits churches. Its square entrance tower has a battlemented parapet, while granite dressings frame pointed windows and mark the tower’s stages. The nave’s north wall has no windows. A small chancel and vestry project at the eastern end. The graveyard’s enclosing rubble wall and iron gates retain the close relationship between the church and its burial ground. [3]
A house with public functions
A two-storey house dating from around 1835 stands prominently in Moyne, with one side directly beside the road. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage notes that an Ordnance Survey map labels it as both dispensary and post office. Its hipped slate roof, substantial eaves brackets and varied timber sash windows give it a more formal appearance than a simple cottage. The mapped uses record the practical services once accommodated within this small rural settlement. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Civil parish
- Moyne
- Within
- Moyne
- Coordinates
- 52.86111, -6.47053 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412688 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyne, Wicklow, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Saint John’s Church, Moyne, 16403301 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Moyne house, 16403302 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint John's Church, Moyne, County Wicklow illustration: based on a Saint John's Church, Moyne, County Wicklow, Ireland01 (4 October2023) by Ridiculopathy. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC0 1.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.