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Moneygall
Muine Gall (Irish) | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Main Street, Moneygall | |
  Moneygall Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°52′48″N 7°57′23″W / 52.879977°N 7.956313°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Offaly |
| Government | |
| • Dáil constituency | Offaly |
| Elevation | 120 m (390 ft) |
| Population | 313 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | S028811 |
Moneygall (Irish: Muine Gall, meaning 'foreigners' thicket')[3] is a village on the border of counties Offaly and Tipperary, in Ireland. It is situated on the R445 road between Dublin and Limerick. There were 313 people living in the village as of the 2016 census.[2] Moneygall has a Catholic church, motorway service station, a car sales and repair centre, a national school, a Garda station and two pubs.[4] The nearest Church of Ireland church, Borrisnafarney, is 2 km from the village beside the former Loughton Demesne.[5][6]
The village received international attention for being the ancestral home of Falmouth Kearney, a maternal great-great-great-grandfather of Barack Obama. Obama visited the village in 2011.
Moneygall is in the Dáil constituency of Laois Offaly (Dáil constituency). It was in the former constituency of Offaly and was one term in the Tipperary North Dáil constituency.[7]
- ^ "Ordnance Survey Map". osi.ie. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Moneygall". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Moneygall / Muine Gall". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ "County Development Plan - Moneygall". Offaly County Council.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Cloughjordan - Diocese of Killaloe". ireland.anglican.org. Church of Ireland. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
- ^ "Borrisnafarney Church of Ireland Church, Ballycormick, County Offaly". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Waterford – Tipperary – Laois – Offaly – Kildare area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 14 July 2012.
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