placenamesMoyglare
Maigh gCláir
An 1815 building project combined a grant with a loan.
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
- Maigh gCláir · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Moyglare · English · main form
Place & story
The minister’s house
Moyglare’s glebe house was built in 1815 with support from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Its assistance comprised a £400 gift and a separate £390 loan. Lewis recorded a glebe of four and three-quarter acres and described the parish church as an old, plain building. The 1815 date therefore belongs to the glebe house; his account does not date the church to the same project. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Deece Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.40983, -6.59587
- Mapped area
- 18.42 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1901 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyglare. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyglare: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.