placenamesMoyne
An Mhaighean
Coolballintaggart connects the wider parish with the Tate family’s landholdings, while surviving records distinguish proposed church alterations from completed work.
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
- An Mhaighean · Irish · main form
- Moyne · English · main form
Place & story
Coolballintaggart’s granite frontage
Lewis singled out Coolballintaggart as Moyne parish’s principal mansion in 1837, naming A. Tate as its occupant. He described a frontage of dressed granite and landscaped grounds with mountain views. The parish extended to the Carlow boundary and was much larger than the small settlement beside the church. The house belonged to that wider rural landscape of demesne land and dispersed townlands. [2]
The Tate family’s land and charity
Wicklow County Archives traces the family’s local holdings to James Tate’s 1767 lease of land at Coolballintaggart, Ballycurraghmore, Ballygobbin and Ballyteige. Loans from John Hayes helped him acquire and later buy out the lease. His son John inherited the holdings and expanded them. When John died in 1787, his interest in separate land at Cullentragh endowed a charity for Rathdrum parish. Its beneficiaries should therefore be distinguished from the location of the family’s Moyne estate. [3]
Joseph Welland’s proposed furnishings
The Irish Architectural Archive records signed but undated designs by Joseph Welland for new seating, a reader’s desk and a pulpit at St John’s, Moyne. Its entry also tentatively mentions an open timber roof. These are proposals preserved through drawings catalogued in the Representative Church Body Library; the record does not establish that every suggested alteration was carried out. They add a documentary history of changing church interiors to the surviving exterior. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Coordinates
- 52.89963, -6.44428
- Mapped area
- 34.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2708 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyne in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- John Tate’s Charity: digital exhibition · Wicklow County Council Archives
- Moyne, Church of St John: architectural work record 62314 · Irish Architectural Archive
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.