placenamesMoyne
An Mhaighean
A published family recollection preserves details of an old Moyne cottage, while census returns document the wider farming community.
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
A cottage remembered
Writing in the Roscommon Herald in March 2026, Alan Beirne described his family's O'Brien cottage at Moyne outside Loughglynn. He dated it to 1749, a family account rather than an independently verified building date. His childhood recollections included carrying buckets of water from a well through the fields. The article records the house as a place of family memory across successive generations. [2]
Objects of domestic life
Beirne's account describes an open hearth with an iron crane, cast-iron cooking pots, a settle bed and a kitchen dresser. He recalls his grandmother returning from work at Loughglynn Convent to sleep in the cottage. Farm tools and an oil lamp also appear in his description. These remembered objects connect the building with domestic work and farming, rather than the grander houses usually documented in estate histories. [2]
The wider townland
The 1851 census places Moyne in Tibohine parish within the barony of Frenchpark. It records 362 people there in 1841 and 314 in 1851. Inhabited houses declined from 66 to 54 during that decade. These are figures for the townland surrounding the locality, not a separate village total or a count of the cottage's occupants. The table does not explain the individual causes of population change. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Civil parish
- Tibohine
- Coordinates
- 53.84021, -8.54695 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414416 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- I’m Irish and I’m proud,17March2026 · Alan Beirne, Roscommon Herald
- Census of Ireland1851, Roscommon, Frenchpark barony, Tibohine parish, page205 · Census Commissioners; Central Statistics Office archive
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.