placenamesMonamolin
Muine Moling
Lewis records the support provided for teaching and distinguishes gifts from loans for parish buildings.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Muine Moling · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Monamolin · English · main form
Place & story
A school with land for its master
Monamolin’s parochial school had been established by the incumbent a few years before Samuel Lewis published his account in 1837. About thirty children attended. Subscriptions provided part of its support, while the master had the schoolhouse and an acre of land rent-free. Lewis did not give a precise foundation year. [2]
Funding the glebe-house
The Board of First Fruits contributed a £450 gift and a £50 loan towards the glebe-house, which was attached to the curacy along with twenty-six acres of glebe. Lewis separately recorded a £1,000 loan for building the church. These were different forms of assistance for two distinct buildings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Gorey
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Coordinates
- 52.56836, -6.32715
- Mapped area
- 34.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2595 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monamolin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Monomolin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-03-19. How this page was prepared.