placenamesMayglass
Maigh Ghlas
The Heritage Council’s project treated household objects and the thatched building as parts of one surviving farmstead.
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 Ghlas · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Mayglass · English · main form
Place & story
Repairing more than the walls
The Heritage Council funded work at Mayglass Farmstead between 1998 and 2000, conserving a two-storey thatched house as well as its contents. Its project account describes building phases extending from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth century and identifies Seamus Kirwan as its resident until the mid-1990s. Furniture, farm equipment and household effects were catalogued and removed for specialist conservation. Original parlour wallpaper was cleaned, repaired and reattached where necessary. The work favoured repair over replacement, retaining evidence of domestic life alongside the building’s fabric. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mayglass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mayglass Farmstead: conservation project · The Heritage Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-05. How this page was prepared.