placenames1901 census
78People recorded
14Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Canavan 11
- King 11
- Hazell 7
- Geary 6
- Carney 5
Cashel
An Caiseal
Alice Cashel’s recollections connect the Connemara townland with work and politics during the independence struggle.
Recorded locationCashel53.42645° N · 9.79326° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- An Caiseal · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cashel · English · main form
Place & story
Alice Cashel at Cashel House
Alice Cashel recalled moving into her brother-in-law's Cashel House in summer 1919. While he travelled to America to work with Éamon de Valera, she undertook to manage his oyster fisheries at Cashel and Kilkerrin. Her witness statement, reproduced by Galway County Council, places the house within a coastal business as well as within the republican political network of the period. [2]
Arrest and local organisation
In the same account, Cashel described a raid on the house in April 1920 and her subsequent arrest. She said she spent a week in Galway jail without a charge before being returned home. Later that year she and Katie Kelly organised a local Volunteer company. Cashel recalled its work carrying despatches and intercepting illicit spirits at local fairs, with seized drink brought to the house. [2]
The gardens under successive owners
Cashel House's garden history records work by several successive residents. Mrs Hazell planted flowering trees and shrubs; James O'Mara later developed an orchard field into a sheltered garden of unusual trees, azaleas, heathers and dwarf rhododendrons. The Browne Clayton family, who moved there in 1952, added fuchsias. These successive plantings helped create the garden landscape inherited by the later hotel. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Civil parish
- Moyrus
- Within
- Moyrus
- Coordinates
- 53.42645, -9.79326
- Mapped area
- 5.17 km²
- Logainm ID
- 18286 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
1926 census
39People recorded
8Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Creane 8
- Canavan 7
- King 7
- Geary 4
- Cosgrave 2
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cashel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Alice M. Cashel witness-statement excerpt, Cumann na mBan: County Galway Dimensions, printed page 33 · Alice M. Cashel; Galway County Council, edited by Marie Mannion and Jimmy Laffey, 2015
- Cashel House Hotel: history of the gardens and successive residents · Cashel House Hotel
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.