Moylehid
| Moylehid TOWNLAND | |
| Fermanagh | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Location: | 54°19’40"N, 7°46’28"W |
| Grid reference: | H147421 |
| Data | |
Moylehid is a townland in Fermanagh, in the civil parish of Boho.[1] This townland has also been variously known as Moylehide (1609), Moolet (1659), Moylehit, Mullyleet, Mul Leathaid and Mul-leithid (hill of breadth) (1834).[2]
Its name, 'Moylehid' is a familiar form across the British Isles, from the Gaelic Mulleithid or Maol Leathan, meaning 'Broad bare hill' and thus comparable with Moel Fryn (Malvern, in Worcestershire and Herefordshire), Maol Chean-dearg ('bare red hill', in Ross-shire).
About the village
Mylehid townland contains two important scheduled historic monuments:[3]
- Eagle's Knoll Cairn passage tomb and
- Moylehid ring cairn
Both of the sites were discovered by archaeologist Thomas Plunkett in 1894 and contain evidence of Neolithic settlement.[1]
One of these cairns is situated on an eastern spur of Belmore Mountain, overlooking the Erne valley and has the appearance of an overgrown boss of cherty limestone.[4]
The cairn or passage grave is laid out in a cross shaped arrangement, 13 feet long and 7 feet 4 inches wide and divided into 7 areas.[1]
A number of artefacts have been discovered in these chambers including cremated and uncremated bones, ornamented stone beads, human skulls, animals bones such as birds, boars, sea shells, a stone hammer and ornamented urns (which are on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin).[1]
Moylehid is also the location of the Templemullen chapel of ease, also known as the Church of the Mill which was the property of the Lisgoole Abbey.[1][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ed. Edel Bannon; Louise Mclaughlin; Cecilia Flanagan 'Boho Heritage: A treasure trove of history and lore': Boho Heritage Organisation (Nicholson & Bass Ltd, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9560607-0-9 pages 246
- ↑ "Place Names NI-Moylehid, County Fermanagh". http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=7800. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ↑ Scheduled Historic Monuments, 1 April 2019: Historic Environment Division, DoCNI
- ↑ George Coffey (1953). "On a Cairn Excavated by Thomas Plunkett, M.R.I.A., on Belmore Mountain, Co. Fermanagh". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 4, (1896 - 1898): 659–666.
- ↑ Blennerhassett, Rev. Canon James (1929). "Clogher clergy and parishes microform: being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher from the earliest period with historical notices of the several parishes churches etc.". Kilsaran Rectory, Castlebellingham. https://archive.org/stream/MN5034ucmf_0/MN5034ucmf_0_djvu.txt.