placenamesMoyanna
Maigh Eanaigh
An 1837 account linked the Laois parish’s agriculture with nearby transport routes.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Eanaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Moyanna · English · main form
Place & story
Routes for agricultural produce
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Moyanna parish, in what is now County Laois, connected agricultural improvement with local limestone and access to the southern branch of the Grand Canal. He regarded the canal’s proximity as an advantage in selling produce. Lewis also recorded that James Grattan, MP, had erected a bridge across the Barrow at Dunrally fort. The account does not give the bridge’s construction date or establish that the present structure is the same one. [2]
Teaching and a proposed chapel
About two hundred children attended the national school at Moyanna and a school at Vicarstown supported by Mrs. Grattan. That figure covered both schools together. Lewis described a chapel at Vicarstown as still contemplated, distinguishing the proposal from a completed building. The parish’s older church was already in ruins when he wrote. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Stradbally
- Coordinates
- 53.05481, -7.10769
- Mapped area
- 28.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1449 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyanna. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyanna, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.