Monamolin

Monamolin Irish: Muine Moling
County Wexford
Monamolin
Location
Grid reference:	T121462
Location:	52°33’22"N, 6°20’54"W
Data
Population:	661
Local Government
Council:	Gorey

Monamolin or Monamoling is a small rural village in County Wexford, about seven miles south of the town of Gorey.

The censius recorded a village population of 661.

Villages nearby include Kilmuckridge, Oulart, Boolavogue, Ballycanew and Ballygarrett.

The village has a school, a pub and shop, and a Montessori group,

There are two churches; Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic

Name

In 1685 Sir William Petty's map spells the village 'Monemoling' (a pronunciation which has survived to the present day). By 1837 the spelling had changed to 'Monemolin' according to Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. In 1851 The Index of Irish Townlands records it as 'Monomolin'. However, 'Monamolin' is the standardised spelling today.

The various English versions of the name all come from the Irish, Muine Moling. Saint Moling (d. 696) was a seventh-century Irish saint. O'Donaill's Irish-English Dictionary translates muine as "brushwood" or "scrub". Therefore, the name means "the brushwood" or "scrub of Moling".

Sport

• Buffers Alley GAA club

References

• Monamolin: Placenames Database of Ireland