Monamolin
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Monamolin (Irish: Muine Moling) is a small rural village in the southeastern corner of Ireland. It is situated in County Wexford about 11 km (7 mi) south of the town of Gorey.
Today Monamolin, the curacy of the Parish of Litter, has a Catholic population of just over 500 parishioners. It is surrounded by Kilmuckridge, Monthoward, Oulart, Boolavogue, Clologue, Ballycanew and Ballygarrett.
In 1685 Sir William Petty's map spells it Monemoling (a pronunciation which has survived to the present day). By 1837 the spelling had changed to Monemolin according to Samuel Lewis "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 and O'Donaill's Irish-English Dictionary translates Muine as "brushwood" or "scrub".
Therefore the name means "the Brushwood" or "Scrub of Moling".
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