placenamesStaghall
Halla an Charria
A church built during the Famine years and a neighbouring clergy house form Staghall’s nineteenth-century group.
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
- Halla an Charria · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Staghall · English · main form
Place & story
Building Saint Mary’s
Father Philip Donegan obtained a site at Kilconny from Lord Lanesborough after arriving in the parish in 1843. The ground provided space for both a new church and a cemetery for lower Drumlane. Work probably began in 1844 or 1845 and continued through the Famine years; the diocesan account notes that finishing work remained in 1853. [2]
The house opposite
The former parochial house opposite Saint Mary’s dates from about 1860. Its two-storey, three-bay form has a hipped slate roof, decorative sash windows and an entrance porch with triangular-headed recesses. The architectural inventory highlights the shared detailing between house and church and their relationship with the graveyard as a group serving the local community. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Loughtee Lower
- Civil parish
- Drumlane
- Coordinates
- 54.09710, -7.46514
- Logainm ID
- 105067 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Staghall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Church of St Mary’s, Staghall, 3 April 2011 · Kilmore Diocese; reproduced by Drumlane Community Website
- Former parochial house, Kilconny, Staghall — NIAH 40401501 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The Catholic church at Staghall, County Cavan, as photographed in February 2007 illustration: based on a RC Church of the Immaculate Conception, Staghall, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Ireland by Peter Gerken. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-09. How this page was prepared.