placenamesMoyglass
Maigh Ghlas
Moyglass in east Galway has a documented sporting history and a landscape of small local names collected from community memory.
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
- Maigh Ghlas · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moyglass · English · main form
Place & story
Éire Óg’s sports days
Éire Óg Athletic Club was established in Moyglass in 1944. The local historical group records sports days from 1945 on Dervan’s land in neighbouring Slatefield, with running, cycling, tug-of-war and sheaf throwing among the events. Support from emigrants helped provide an Exiles Cup for the best overall performance at the annual sports. The group preserves photographs and a printed fundraising appeal associated with the club. [2]
Names remembered in the fields
The Ballynakill Placenames Project records names passed down orally in Moyglass, including the Long Strips, the Lime Kiln Field and the Callows beside the river. Contributors differed over the extent of the area called the Roochóg. Preserving that disagreement shows how these smaller names can carry local knowledge without having fixed official boundaries. [2]
The Haig connection
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates research records James Haig of London as owning more than eight hundred acres in County Galway during the 1870s. In 1906, his representatives held the mansion at Moyglass and over 160 acres of untenanted demesne land. These records place the house within a wider pattern of estate ownership extending beyond the immediate locality. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill
- Within
- Moyglass
- Coordinates
- 53.06776, -8.46251 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413600 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyglass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyglass: placenames and Éire Óg Athletic Club · Ballynakill and Surroundings Historical Group
- Haig estate: Moyglass house and demesne · University of Galway, Landed Estates database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.