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
Maigh Mheáin· Irish · main form · validated name
Newtownsandes· English · main form
Moyvane· English · main form
Place & story
Keeping the creamery in farmers’ hands
Newtownsandes Co-op was registered on 11 March 1895. Manager Michael Liston’s history records a difficult early period: members considered selling the creamery in January 1914 but voted thirty-five to six against the proposal. When the bank refused further lending in spring 1916, local farmers supplied money to keep it operating. Affiliation with the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society followed in 1917. These decisions show the practical effort behind a co-operative institution that became a focal point of village and farming life.[2]
People & connections
A village poet and school principal
Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in Moyvane and spent many years as principal of its national school. His publisher Mercier Press lists children’s poetry collections including Really Rotten Rhymes, I’m Proud to Be Me and GF Woz ’Ere. Teaching and writing thus had a direct local connection: the village was the birthplace of a poet whose work reached young readers well beyond North Kerry.[3]
Folklore & tradition
Collecting The Rose of Newtownsandes
In his 1980 account Songs of Moyvane, Fitzmaurice recalls seeking out The Rose of Newtownsandes and recording singer Con Greaney in 1975 after a tip from flute player Donie Lyons. He describes that encounter as the beginning of his collecting of traditional songs. His account groups the parish repertoire into sporting, political and love songs, but leaves the identity of the woman celebrated as the Rose unresolved. The uncertainty belongs to the documented song tradition; no particular identity can safely be supplied.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Newtownsandes — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Newtownsandes, Kerry — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
387people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Newtownsandes, Kerry — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Newtownsandes, Kerry — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
370people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Newtownsandes, Kerry — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Newtownsandes, Kerry — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
357people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
View population figures
Newtownsandes, Kerry — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Newtownsandes, Kerry
Published census settlement populations
381people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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