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A look at Abbeyknockmoy in the 1840s

A look at Abbeyknockmoy in the 1840s

ABBEYKNOCKMOY, a parish, in the union of Tuam, partly in the barony of Clare, but chiefly inthat of Tyaquin, county of Galway, and province of Connaught, 7 miles (S. E.) from Tuam, on the roadfrom Newtownbellew to Galway ; containing 2866 inhabitants. This place derives its name from the abbeyof Knockmoy, called by some writers Cnoc Mugha, signifying in the Irish...