placenamesAghanagh
Eachanach
The lakeside residence appears in estate records under both the Phibbs and Ffolliott families.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Eachanach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Aghanagh · English · main form
Place & story
A house after the castle
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record places Hollybrook in Ballyhealy or Hollybrook Demesne, within Aghanagh parish. It dates the house to the 1750s, replacing an earlier castle. The estate passed to the Phibbs family later that century before returning to a member of the Ffolliott family. John Ffolliott owned the property at Griffith’s Valuation; in 1906 it belonged to Agnes Ffolliott, when the house was valued at £55. It also served as a hotel for part of the twentieth century. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghanagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Hollybrook, property11 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.