{"id":828,"date":"2026-02-25T18:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/?p=828"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:08:43","slug":"moycullen-war-memorial-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/moycullen-war-memorial-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Moycullen War Memorial Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Commemoration Stone is situated in the boundary wall at \u00c1ras Uillinn, Church Road, Maigh Cuillinn. Here, an annual ceremony honours all the men and women from the Moycullen area who served or died in past wars or on service with the United Nations. It was donated by Welby\u2019s Quarry, Moycullen, and inscribed by O\u2019Toole\u2019s of Spiddal. The stone was officially unveiled by Ned Cusack (RIP), retired Colonel of the Irish Army, on 29 November 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joe-loughnane-1024x754.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joe-loughnane-1024x754.png 1024w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joe-loughnane-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joe-loughnane-768x566.png 768w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joe-loughnane-1200x884.png 1200w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joe-loughnane.png 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Joe Loughnane stands beside the war commemoration stone in Moycullen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commemoration Stone is situated in the boundary wall at \u00c1ras Uillinn, Church Road, Maigh Cuillinn. Here, an annual ceremony honours all the men and women from the Moycullen area who served or died in past wars or on service with the United Nations. It was donated by Welby\u2019s Quarry, Moycullen, and inscribed by O\u2019Toole\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/moycullen-war-memorial-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moycullen War Memorial Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,9],"tags":[283,263,282],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galway-musings","category-galway-photos","tag-joe-loughnane","tag-moycullen","tag-war-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}