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An Ghráinseach
The Landed Estates database traces an eighteenth-century house in Beechhill townland through nineteenth-century ownership records.
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
- An Ghráinseach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Grange · English · main form
Place & story
An eighteenth-century house
Beech Hill stands in Beechhill townland, Grange parish, in County Galway. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database dates its construction broadly to the middle or later eighteenth century. It records Mr Mahon there in 1786 and Bernard Mahon as resident in 1814, without identifying those two references as the same person. [2]
Sale and valuation
The Mahons offered Beech Hill for sale in 1851. By Griffith’s Valuation it belonged to Edward C. Villiers, with a house valuation of £26. The database records the same valuation in 1906. These are valuation figures, rather than the sale price or annual rent. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Coordinates
- 53.29408, -8.52075
- Mapped area
- 19.02 km²
- Logainm ID
- 934 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grange. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Beech Hill, property859 — Landed Estates database · University of Galway, Landed Estates research project
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.