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Moylough

Field	Value
name	Moylough
native_name	ga
native_name_lang	ga
image_skyline	Moylough castle - geograph.org.uk - 957031.jpg
caption	Moylough Castle is a 13th century tower or hall house
settlement_type	Village
pushpin_map	Ireland
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Connacht
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	County Galway
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2016
population_total	518
population_footnotes

Moylough ( ; ) is a rural village located in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 518. The village is in a civil parish of the same name.

Moylough is 5 km northwest of Mountbellew and 50 km from Galway. It is located on the N63 national secondary road, and is also served by the R328 and R364 regional roads.

History

Moylough was part of the ancient kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht.

Other evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes Moylough Castle, a 13th-century tower house historically associated with the Norman de Cotterell and de Cogeshale families.

Together with nearby Mountbellew, Moylough has been twinned with Elliant in Brittany since 1998.

Amenities

Amenities within Moylough include a national (primary) school, Garda station, post office and community centre. Many of the village's amenities lie within the townland of Moylough More, including the local Catholic church (built ). As of the 2011 census, Moylough More townland had a population of over 440 people.

Notable people

Moylough is the birthplace of Thomas Higgins who became the shortest serving MP in Westminster when, representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was posthumously declared elected a Member of Parliament of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 26 January 1906.

Thomas Carr, Archbishop of Melbourne 1886–1917, was born near Moylough in 1839.

There is a statue of the Galway Gaelic footballer Enda Colleran in the town.

Former Irish rugby manager Eddie O'Sullivan is from Moylough.

References

"Maigh Locha / Moylough". Placenames Database of Ireland.
Mills, A. D.. (2003). "A Dictionary of British Place-Names". Oxford University Press.
"Moylough (Ireland) Census Town".
"Moylough Castle".
"Historique". Comité de jumelage Elliant – Mountbellew-Moylough.
(16 December 2022). "Elliant. Le comité de jumelage va animer le bourg". Société Ouest France.
"17.1 Moylough Small Growth Village". Galway County Council.
"Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, Main Street, Chapel Road, Moylough More, Moylough, Galway". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
"CD155 - Galway Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". Central Statistics Office.

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