placenamesMohill
Maothail
Buildings in Mohill town preserve successive forms of worship, community gathering and education within the civil parish.
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
- Maothail · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Mohill · English · main form
Place & story
Saint Patrick’s and its later tower
Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church was built in 1886 under Canon Donohoe, whom the architectural inventory also identifies as its architect. He sought voluntary labour for the project. The church’s broad nave and side aisles belong to that building campaign, but the elaborate entrance tower is later: Thomas Francis McNamara designed it in 1936. Pinnacles, battlements and crosses give the three-stage tower its distinctive outline. The church therefore combines two major phases of parish investment. [2]
The Hunt Memorial Hall
The red-brick Hunt Memorial Parochial Hall on Castle Street dates from 1893. When the inventory surveyed it in 2003, the former hall was used as a primary school. Its L-shaped building combines two-storey accommodation with a taller hall space. Stained-glass windows, carved timber bargeboards and terracotta details distinguish the front, while an extension stands behind. Its changed use records a community building taking on an educational role. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mohill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- SaintPatricksCatholicChurch,NIAH30816047 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- HuntMemorialParochialHall,NIAH30816020 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.