placenamesStackallan
Stigh Colláin
Stackallan’s early eighteenth-century house later accommodated a school, while elements of its parish church survive in Slane.
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
- Stigh Colláin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Stackallan · English · main form
Place & story
Stackallan House
Stackallan House, also known as Boyne House, dates to about 1715. Built on a broadly square plan, it has three storeys above a basement and two principal façades with pedimented central sections. A steep slate roof reflects late seventeenth-century French fashion. The architectural inventory associates the house with Gustavus Hamilton, who commanded a Williamite regiment at the Battle of the Boyne. [2]
Saint Columba’s first home
Saint Columba’s College occupied Stackallan House from 1843 to 1849. Its first chapel was a converted coach house. The college’s own chapel guide records fittings that travelled with it to its later Dublin campus, including stalls collected by founder William Sewell and a Whitechapel bell given by the first warden, Robert Corbet Singleton. These objects preserve a material connection with the school’s years at Stackallan. [3]
The old church’s surviving fragments
Historian Noel French recorded Stackallen churchyard in 1987. His account explains that the church was demolished after its congregation declined, with important stonework transferred to Slane church. The pieces included a late medieval doorway, a plaque bearing the Barnewall arms and two coffin-shaped medieval tombstones. The churchyard and its recorded inscriptions therefore belong to a history whose architectural remains are partly preserved at another location. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Civil parish
- Stackallan
- Coordinates
- 53.69875, -6.62205 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414682 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stackallan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stackallan House, NIAH14401801 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint Columba’s College: The Chapel, August2019 · J.M. Girdham, Saint Columba’s College
- Stackallen Churchyard: monumental inscriptions recorded August1987 · Noel E. French
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