Moorehall is the Home place of George Moore, the writer, Geroge Henry Moore, MP for Mayo, who fought for tenants rights and saved his people from starvation during the Famine and of course John Moore, 1st President of The Connacht Republic in 1798. Burriscara Abbey, Mayo Abbey, Ballintubber Abbey, Church Island, Annies, Castlecarra, Doon promontory Fort, Castlebourke and Frenchill are all monuments to a glorious past. Touaghty, the home place of a servile tribe of Firbolg, is dropped completely from the map and replaced by the more upmarket townland of Towerhill. The Touaghty Triangle, like its more famous counterpart the Bermuda Triangle, has the same effect on the unsuspecting navigator. A maze of road network systems make this district a nightmare for the visitor.
Strangers journeying in the area, constantly find themselves back where they started out from.
This is not helped by the fact that quite a number of Ballyglasses exist in Mayo, and the area has fallen completely off the Tourist map. Many incidents have occurred where visitors have become hopelessly lost, but have stayed to enjoy the natural hospitality of the people. Within the Touaghty Triangle, just off the plain of Mayo, is Blackpudding Country - the scene of a new cultural renaissance. Here in 1990 a group of people set up a body which has come to be known as the Blackpudding Club. The purpose of the club was to perform and read prose and poetry in the local pubs.