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Moone
Sign in to saveMoone (; ) is a small village in the south of County Kildare, Ireland. It is on the former N9 road (now by-passed) about south of Dublin. It has only a few hundred inhabitants, a church, a national school, one shop and a small community centre. There is also a pub called the Moone High Cross Inn. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.
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Place details
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,195
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Location, access and development
- High Cross
- Bolton Abbey - Cistercian Monastery
- Sport
- See also
- References
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Moone (; ) is a small village in the south of County Kildare, Ireland. It is on the former N9 road (now by-passed) about south of Dublin. It has only a few hundred inhabitants, a church, a national school, one shop and a small community centre. There is also a pub called the Moone High Cross Inn. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.
==Etymology== The name Moone comes from the Irish "Maen Colmcille", which means "Colmcille's property".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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