Moneygall
Village in County Offaly, Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
Moneygall
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Village | |
Coordinates: 52°52′48″N 7°57′23″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 |
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]