placenamesTimoleague
Tigh Molaige
Beyond the friary and decorated churches, parish records describe changing agriculture, textile work, a flour mill and the loss of an estate house.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tigh Molaige · Irish · main form · validated name
- Timoleague · English · main form
Place & story
New crops and farming implements
Lewis described Timoleague parish in 1837 as mainly cultivated land producing wheat, oats and potatoes. Some ground was light and stony, though he generally rated it good. He credited Colonel Travers with encouraging improved farming, including green crops and the adoption of the Scotch plough. Travers had also planted fifty acres near Timoleague House. This is a contemporary account of estate-led improvement, rather than a measure of every farmer’s experience. [2]
Looms, milling and a parish library
Agriculture shared the local economy with weaving. Lewis recorded coarse sheeting and about fifty town looms producing cotton cords. At Spital Hill, Swete and Company’s flour mill ground some six thousand barrels of wheat annually for neighbouring towns. Education had its own patrons: the rector and Colonel Travers supported schools, while James Duncan of London supplied books for a parochial library. A voluntary society assisted impoverished householders. [2]
The house lost in 1920
Timoleague House stood in Castle Lower. The University of Galway’s estate survey records Robert Travers holding it outright at Griffith’s Valuation, when its buildings were valued at £21. The house and the neighbouring old castle were burned in December 1920. The Travers family subsequently built another house nearby. Distinguishing the lost residence from its replacement helps explain why the same family and locality occur in records of different buildings. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Coordinates
- 51.64267, -8.78298
- Mapped area
- 11.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 694 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Timoleague. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Timoleague: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Timoleague House: Landed Estates property 3000 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.