placenamesMoycullen
Maigh Cuilinn
Francis Blake’s legacy and a National Education grant supported a completed school building.
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
- Maigh Cuilinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moycullen · English · main form
Place & story
Five hundred pounds and a public grant
Rev. Francis Blake left £500 for a schoolhouse in Moycullen parish. Samuel Lewis recorded in 1837 that the Board of National Education added £200 and that a substantial building had been completed, teaching about 500 children. At the other end of the parish, another schoolhouse had recently been built under A. O’Flaherty’s patronage. Lewis separately recorded a private school with about sixty pupils. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moycullen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moycullen: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.