Mount Temple (Irish: an Grianán) is a village in County Westmeath in Ireland, about 6.5 km northwest of Moate.

In ancient times, the locality of Mount Temple and its Hinterland formed part of the kingdom of the Ard Rí of Uisneach at Killare.

The area of South Westmeath and Longford was conquered by Niall of the Nine Hostages circa 400AD and formed the Kingdom of Teathbha (anglicized Teffia).

St Ciarán has strong associations with the area, having founded a church called Iseal Chiarán in Baylin.

A Franciscan Abbey and a St Clare’s Nunnery were located in the townland of Monksland, but they were abandoned following Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Other Normans arrived under the Tuite’s leadership and many of those surnames remain in the area to this day, such as Nugents, Ledwiths, Daltons, Tyrrells, Pettits and Brownes.

The Magawleys strengthened their position by building five castles, the principal one being at Ballyloughloe (adjacent the present-day Mount Temple Golf Club).

Much of the walls of Dunegan castle remained in tack up until the 1940s, but Westmeath County Council decided to take a large section of it down so as the stone could be used to raise the nearby road.

The Barony of Clonlonan, which includes the parish of Ballyloughloe, was incorporated into Westmeath in 1600, when the Gaelic clans of Melaghlin and Magawley finally submitted to English law.

One such descendant was Philip Magawley who served as Field Marshal in the Army of Emperor Charles IV and later was Governor of Prague in 1740.

This was a reprisal attack for the burning of a number of farmhouses in Coosan by British Crown forces earlier that day.

[3] The local GAA club, Caulry, was founded in 1928 by Fr Francis Skelly in an effort to bring all sections of the community together in one unified organization.

It was dedicated on Sunday 23 July 1933 as ‘Corpus Christi Church’ following the Eucharistic Congress held in Ireland during the previous year.

The original marble altar rails were a gift of Count John McCormack, Archbishop Curley, and Monsignor Langan.