placenamesMoneyneany
Móin na nIonadh
Fr Leo Deery’s parish research traces the changing buildings used for worship and education at Moneyneany, locally also called Moneyneena.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Móin na nIonadh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moneyneany · English · main form
Place & story
The first Saint Eugene’s
Fr Leo Deery’s history records that Dean Murphy built the first Saint Eugene’s Church in 1814, on the site now occupied by Moneyneena graveyard. In 1823 the church also became a weekday school, with Roger O’Kane teaching there while the building continued to serve Sunday worship. A separate national-school history followed: the old school entered the national system on 1 September 1845. [2]
Twentieth-century replacements
The present Saint Eugene’s Church was dedicated by Bishop O’Doherty on 8 June 1902. Saint Eoghan’s School opened on 1 September 1958. Church improvements in 1959 included a new floor and confessionals, strengthened roof timbers and new windows. Electricity followed in 1963, with heating installed in January 1966. These dates mark successive efforts to improve the village’s communal buildings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Civil parish
- Ballynascreen
- Within
- Moneyneany
- Coordinates
- 54.81517, -6.83323 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413335 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moneyneany. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Churches of Ballinascreen: Parish History · Fr Leo Deery, published by Ballinascreen Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-12-06. How this page was prepared.