placenamesMonaseed
Móin na Saighead
Monaseed’s history links the early life of Myles Byrne with an eighteenth-century farmhouse and a school tradition recorded across several local sites.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Móin na Saighead · Irish · main form · validated name
- Monaseed · English · main form
Place & story
Myles Byrne of Ballylusk
Myles Byrne was born in 1780 at Ballylusk, near Monaseed. He joined the United Irishmen in 1797 and fought in the 1798 rebellion, including the engagements at Tubberneering, Arklow and Vinegar Hill. After involvement in Robert Emmet’s attempted uprising in 1803, he escaped to France and served in the Irish Legion. His widow published his memoirs after his death in Paris in 1862. [2]
Monaseed House
Monaseed House was standing by 1777. The architectural inventory describes a compact farmhouse with its main floor raised above a basement and reached by eleven granite steps. A carefully cut stone doorway provides its principal ornament. Outbuildings and a walled garden preserve the wider farm setting, while nineteenth- and early twentieth-century records connect the property with the Moore family. [3]
From a single room to a larger school
The national school’s history records pay schools in the locality in 1826–27, including teaching in the church, and a one-room school operating in 1865 on the later hall site. A new building erected in 1913 opened on 14 September 1914 with two teachers, twenty-five boys and fifty-two girls. Subsequent expansion included a third teacher in 1957 and a major renovation formally opened in 1992. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monaseed. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The 1798 Rebellion: an educational resource, Wexford Leaders: Myles Byrne · National1798Rebellion Centre / Enniscorthy Castle
- Monaseed House, Monaseed Demesne:15700602 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- History of the School · Monaseed National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.