placenamesMoycashel
Maigh Chaisil
Kilbeggan’s limestone market house combined trade and the administration of local justice.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Chaisil · Irish · main form
- Moycashel · English · main form
Place & story
Butter sales and Saturday sessions
Gustavus Lambart erected Kilbeggan’s limestone market house, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description. The building also accommodated public courts. Saturday brought a substantial butter market and petty sessions, while a separate borough court could recover debts up to five marks. Lewis’s account connects the town’s trading role with its civic institutions, without establishing the market house’s construction date or identifying its fabric with a particular surviving building. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moycashel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbeggan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-09-25. How this page was prepared.