placenamesMoylagh
Maigh Locha
A former national school, a two-court handball alley and Gaelic games records preserve the communal history of Moylagh parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Locha · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Moylagh · English · main form
Place & story
The school at Gortloney
The former Gortloney National School dates from around 1860. Its single-storey building has a T-shaped plan, a projecting northern gable and a long classroom elevation. Timber sash windows and battened doors survived when the architectural inventory surveyed it in 2002, together with a slate roof, brick chimney and iron ventilation fittings. The survey recorded its later use as a garage workshop, an adaptation of an older community building. [2]
Two handball courts
At Garrynabolie, a handball alley built around 1920 preserves another kind of shared local space. Its H-shaped plan accommodates two courts within rendered walls, approached through iron gates between stone piers. The inventory recorded the courts as disused in 2002. Their survival adds a sporting structure to the parish’s churches, farms and former school buildings. [3]
Moylagh’s Gaelic games clubs
Moylagh’s football club affiliated in 1947, joined Oldcastle as Millbrook between 1957 and 1961, and reformed independently in 1962. An intermediate championship followed in 1975. Hurling began locally in 1974, with a first junior championship in 2013 after years of underage development. The ladies’ football club formed in 1977 and won its first championship in 1979. Meath GAA records the separate football and hurling organisations coming together as Moylagh GAA in 2013. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moylagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Gortloney National School,14311009 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Garrynabolie handball alley,14311003 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Moylagh: Club Information · Meath GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.