placenamesMoygawnagh
Maigh Ghamhnach
The parish’s community account records an 1846 dedication and later work preserving burial records.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Ghamhnach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Moygawnagh · English · main form
Place & story
The church dedicated during the Famine
Saint Cormac’s Catholic church in Moygownagh village was dedicated in 1846, during the Great Famine. The community’s account places its construction in that period. This is the later church: Samuel Lewis had described the parish’s Catholic chapel as small and in poor repair in 1837, nine years before the dedication. [2] [3]
A new cemetery and a digital record
A new graveyard opened behind Saint Cormac’s in 1983. Local volunteers later digitally surveyed the surviving graves in the old parish graveyard, with John Tierney of Eachtra and HistoricGraves leading the work. The community website provides an index to the resulting record. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moygawnagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Cormac’s Church and Moygownagh Old Graveyard Digital Survey Project · Moygownagh GAA and Community
- Magaunagh or Moygawna: 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.