placenamesKilmacanoge
Cill Mocheanóg
A former country house became the setting for Woodlands Academy after the school’s Dublin beginnings.
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
- Cill Mocheanóg · Irish · main form
- Kilmacanoge · English · main form
- Kilmacanogue · English · main form · local name
Place & story
From Dal Riada to Wingfield
Woodlands Academy’s own history dates its opening to 1973 at the Dal Riada residence in Dublin. It identifies its later home as Wingfield House in County Wicklow, describing the restored mansion as nineteenth-century and Queen Anne in style. The school’s grounds include lawns, gardens and a natural pond. The account establishes a change of setting from Dublin to Wingfield, without giving a date for that move. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacanoge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Who we are: Woodlands Academy history · Woodlands Academy
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.