placenamesMoyrus
Maíros
Lewis recorded an earlier food crisis in the district, before the Great Famine of the 1840s.
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
- Maíros · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moyrus · English · main form
Place & story
Money and food from London
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Moyrus account describes a famine in the district in 1831 following failure of the potato crop. He reported that 1,200 families had been reduced to destitution before the London Relief Committee supplied money and food. This is a contemporary-era description of an earlier crisis on the Connemara coast. The family figure is Lewis’s report for the affected district, rather than a count of deaths or a total for Roundstone village. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.40392, -9.82395 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 417.3 km²
- Logainm ID
- 991 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyrus. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moyrus: 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.