Information about Moycola

The Ordnance Survey Letters are letters between John O'Donovan and his supervisor, Thomas Larcom, regarding the work of compiling the Field Books. These letters provide further discussion on many of the places listed in the Field Books.

References to this place can be found in the following letter.

• Volume 1 page 622

Moycola in Galway; Magh-comhla, plain of the gates. See Dernagola and Ardcolagh [reproduced below].

Dernagola in Monaghan; Doire-na-gcomhla [-gola], oak wood of the gates. C of comhla eclipsed by g: p. 3 II [reproduced below]. II. C is eclipsed by g, and the combination (gc) is sounded by g alone. Ballynagappoge in Down; Baile-na-gcopóg, townland of the copógs or dock-leaves. See vol. ii. p. 347 [reproduced below]. Dock-leaf. The diminutive copóg [cuppoge] is the word now always used for the common dock-leaf; but judging from some of the derivatives that follow, it would appear that the primitive cop and another diminutive copán must have been in use at some former time. The usual form (with the adjective suffix ach) is seen in Glencoppogagh in the parish of Upper Bodoney in Tyrone, the glen of the dock-leaves; and with the c eclipsed to g in Lagnagoppoge (lag, a hollow), a little south of Strangford in Down, and in Cloonnagoppoge in Mayo, dock-leaf meadow. This termination, goppoge or gappoge, is extremely common all over the country. From the root cop is formed copánach (by the addition of the diminutive and adjective terminations), signifying a place abounding in dock-leaves, which, with very little change, is anglicised Coppanagh, the name of some places in Ulster, Connaught, and Leinster; while the oblique form gives name to several townlands called Copney and Copany, in Tyrone, Armagh, and Donegal.

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Moycola

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Moycola

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Cartron
• Ceathramhadh Clochach
• Cloghastookeen
• Gortnabarnabwee
• Knockroe
• Srah

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

• The Tithe Applotment Books
• Griffith's Valuation
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Moycola is in the civil parish of Killogilleen.

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

• Killora and Killogilleen

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

• Killogilleen

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.