placenamesKilmaine
Cill Mheáin
Houndswood in Cong parish provides one example of the estate changes that shaped this wider district of south Mayo.
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
- Cill Mheáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmaine · English · main form
Place & story
A house in the wider barony
Kilmaine barony extends beyond the village of the same name. At Houndswood Middle in Cong parish, University of Galway’s Landed Estates project identifies Houndswood as John D’Arcy’s seat in Wilson’s 1786 account. It was a thatched country house. The property record follows its later ownership by John S. Dawson, who held it in fee at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, and records its accidental destruction by fire in the early twentieth century. [2]
Purchase through the estates court
The project’s Dawson estate research dates John S. Dawson’s purchase of part of the D’Arcy estate to 1852, through the Encumbered Estates Court. By 1876, Edward Joseph Grant Dawson and Emerson Dawson, both associated with Houndswood, together owned 1,120 acres in County Mayo. The surviving records document a transfer between landed families and the continued association of the new owners with this part of Kilmaine. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmaine. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Houndswood,property421 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
- Dawson,Houndswoodestate518 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.