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Meelick

Míleac

A modest dwelling preserves evidence of traditional building materials.

Watercolour and fine ink view across green pasture to a small jagged church-wall remnant and a low rubble heap, with field fencing and distant sheep.
Illustration, the fragmentary remains of Esker Church in Meelick, County Galway, as photographed in May 2008
Recorded locationMeelick53.18041° N · 8.09853° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Míleac · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Meelick · English · main form

Place & story

Inside the house

A single-storey thatched house in Meelick dates from about 1800, according to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Its survey records timber sash windows and a battened wooden door, with exposed roof material inside and a chimney canopy constructed from wattle and daub. A small open-sided shed for turf stands against the eastern gable, roofed with slate. These details document the house’s domestic and fuel-storage arrangements. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Galway
Barony
Longford
Civil parish
Meelick
Within
Meelick
Coordinates
53.18041, -8.09853
Mapped area
1.69 km²
Logainm ID
21164 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1911 census

62People recorded
20Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Flaherty 9
  • Dermody 7
  • Cullen 4
  • McKeon 4
  • Caragher 3
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Meelick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Meelick vernacular house, registration30410821, Galway survey2008 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. The fragmentary remains of Esker Church in Meelick, County Galway illustration: based on a Church ruins at Meelick by Kieran Campbell. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.