St. Moling's Church, (Past &
Present)
Monamolin is
a small rural village in the southeastern corner of the Republic of
Ireland. It is situated in County Wexford about seven miles 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, Oulart, Boolavogue, Clologue, Ballycanew and
Ballygarrett.
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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.
Monamolin
Village
(Past and Present)
The various
English versions of the name all come from the Irish: Muine
Moling. Moling was a seventh century Irish saint and O'Donaill's
Irish-English Dictionary translates Muine as "brushwood" or "scrub".
Therefore
the place means "the Brushwood" or "Scrub of Moling".