Maam Cross, or as the Irish signs display 'An Teach Doite'- the burned house (a reference to the Bogman's Ball event where steaks were cooked on shovels and fire was often the result!). Nowadays there is no sign of a burned house but a closed house at Peacocke’s: watch this space.
Traditionally Maam Cross has been the location of a monthly horse fair and the October horse fair still exists today.In 1893 Maam Cross was to become an important stopping off place between Galway and Clifden when the Midland Great Railway Company opened a station there. The station had a cattle and goods platform- the railway continued to operate until 1930. In 1920 a consignment of arms arrived at Maam Cross bound for the Volunteers and an unsuspecting British officer ordered his troops to transport them to an address in Leenane. In 1921 Volunteers burned the Barracks at Maam Cross. That same year the local Volunteers captured a British army patrol, close to Maam Cross and took their arms, wounding one soldier.