Kilmovee

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Kilmovee
Cill Moibhí
Location
Location of Kilmovee
centerMap highlighting Kilmovee
Irish grid reference
M545936
Statistics
Province: Connacht
County: County Mayo
Elevation: 56 m
Population (2002) Kilmovee = 613
Urlaur = 523
Kilkelly = 839
Total = 1975
Website: kilmovee.mayo-ireland.ie/

Kilmovee (Irish: Cill Moibhí) is a parish and village in County Mayo in the West of Ireland. Kilmovee is situated on the R325, approximately midway between Kilkelly and Ballaghadereen.

Kilmovee is a vibrant, friendly and caring community where the traditional values of rural Ireland can still be experienced.
The area suffered terrible deprivation and poverty in centuries past, and in more recent times the ravages of emigration, but the Kilmovee of today is somewhat more prosperous with many fine private houses.

This small rural village opened one of the first rural swimming pools in Ireland in 1977. There is a lively sense of civic pride in the people, with very active involvement in local committees.

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[edit] Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA Club

Kilmovee is home of the famous Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA club. Shamrocks have competed very successfully in county and regional competition, with the ladies' team being particularly successful.

The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív, has recently turned the first sod in the construction of a new all-weather pitch and state-of-the-art clubhouse facilities. Much of the money came from fundraising by the people of Kilmovee.

Kilmovee G.A.A won the under-21 Mayo final in September for the first time with their star player and also the goalkeeper helping them to victory and won the mionar for the 3rd time in the row in october

[edit] Church of Moibhí

Kilmovee is known in Irish as Cill Móibhí (Church of Moibhí). Moibhí (pronounced [məˈvʲiː]) was known as "Moibhí the Teacher" and is believed to have died in 545 AD. The name Moibhí is said to be a pet form of the names Berchán and Brénainn [1].

The feast day of Saint Moibhí is 12 October [2].

St. Mobhi's monastery at Glasnevin was frequented by such famous men as St. Canice, St. Comgall, and St. Ciaran. A pestilence which devastated Ireland in 544 caused the dispersion of Mobhi's disciples, and Columba returned to Ulster, the land of his kindred. [3].

[edit] Townlands of Kilmovee

A townland is a small geographical unit of land used in Ireland and Scotland, and believed to be of Gaelic origin.

Name in English Name in Irish Translation
Aughadeffin Achadh Doiffin Divin's field
Ballinrumpa Baile an Rumpa town of the rupture or rump
Ballyglass Baile Glas green village
Barcul Barr Cuill top of the hazel
Carrowbeg Ceathrú Bheag the little quarter
Carrownalacka Ceathrú an Leaca quarter of the hillside
Cashellahenny Caiseal Laithinne Lahinny's stone fort
Clooncara Cluain Cártha lawn or meadow of the rock
Cloonfaulis Cluain Falas bright meadow
Cloonfeaghra Cluain Fiachra Fiachra's lawn or meadow
Clooniron Cluain Iarrainn meadow of the iron
Cloonnamna Cluain na Mná the woman's lawn or meadow
Corgarriff Cor Garbh coarse round hill (Cor also denotes a pit)
Culcastle Coill an Chaisil wood of the fort
Culclare Coill a' Chláir wood of the plain
Culiagh Coilleadh woodland
Derragh Doire Each the oakwood of the horses
Derrynaleck Doire na Leice oakwood of the flat stone
Glantavraun Gleann Tabhráin Tavran's Glen
Gowlaun Gabhlán a small fork
Kilkelly Cill Cheallaigh Ceallach's church
Kilmore Coill Mhór great wood
Kilmovee Cill Mobhi St Mobhi's church
Knockbrack Cnoc Breac speckled hill
Leveelick Leath-Mhíliuc the marshy half
Magheraboy Machaire Buí yellow plain
Raherolish Rath ar Eolais Eolus' Fort
Rathnagussaun Rath na nGiosán fort of the pikes
Rusheens East Ruisíní small point of land, or small woods
Rusheens West Ruisíní small point of land, or small woods
Shammerbawn Seamair Bán white sorrel, or shamrock
Shammerdoo Seamair Dubh black sorrel, or shamrock
Skeheen Sceithín a small bush or lone thorn
Sinolane Sonnach-mhulláin mound or rampart of the hill
Sraheens Sraithíní small holms
Tavrane Teamhrán a little hill commanding fine prospect
Tullyganny Tulach Gainimh hill of the sand
Egool Accomhal Old Irish, meaning a junction or connecting piece of Land
Urlaur Urlár a floor

[edit] History

In pre-Norman Ireland, the lands of Kilmovee formed part of the Kingdom of Sliabh Lugha, a territory ruled by the O'Gadhra Dynasty. Sliabh Lugha was a subdivision of the larger Gailenga kingdom, from which derives the modern name Gallen.

After the Norman Invasion, the parish of Kilmovee became part of the Barony of Costello. The Nangle or de Angelo invaders came southwest from the De Lacy territory in Carrick-on-Shannon and forced the O'Gadhras from their strongold in Airtech Mór, building their own castle there in 1225. It became known as Castlemore and the region was sometimes called Castlemore-MacCostello.

Coolavin - The sept of O'Gara were given as Lord of Cuil Obh-Finn (Prince of Coolavin) and of Sliabh Lugha which was part of the Barony of Costello in Co. Mayo, where they had spread in the 13th century. O'Gara was seated at Moygara castle. By the 13th century the MacDermots became lords of Coolavin

Source: Ireland's History in Maps

The Annals of Connacht mention a skirmish which took place in Clooncara, Kilmovee in 1464:

1464.51
An attack was made by Muirgius son of Cormac Mac Diarmata Gall, at Cluain Carthaig in Sliab Luga, on Edmund of the Plain Mac Goisdelb, wherein Tomaltach Oc O Gadra was killed with one cast of a javelin.

Source: Annals of Connacht The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society. Vol. 1

[edit] Ogham stone

An ogham stone found in a wall in Kilmovee is now mounted beside "The Three Wells." "The Three Wells" are reputed to have sprung up when St. Mobhi struck the ground with his staff when he had no water to baptise the local people.

According to the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project the inscription is somewhat damaged but the legible part reads: ALATTOS MAQI BR[--


[edit] Other historical features

Brooklawn House
The first residence of the Bishop of Achonry in the Ballaghaderreen area.
The Glebe
The residence of the Protestant Rector for Ballaghaderreen. When the French army was marching east from Killala to Longford, the battalion came through Kilmovee to cross the River Lung. Local farmers joined the battalion to fight off the enemy. When the battalion was defeated, the local farmers’ lands were confiscated and given to the Protestant Church.


[edit] "Dodging The Bullet"

Hard man activist known locally as "dodging the bullet" is suspected of living here.

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