Mooncoin

Mooncoin
Móin Choinn (Irish)
Town
Church at Mooncoin
Church at Mooncoin
Mooncoin is located in Ireland
Mooncoin
Mooncoin
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°17′44″N 7°15′34″W / 52.29556°N 7.25944°W / 52.29556; -7.25944
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyCounty Kilkenny
BaronyIverk
Government
 • TypeCounty Council
 • BodyKilkenny CountyCouncil
 • Dáil constituencyCarlow–Kilkenny
 • European ParliamentIreland South
Elevation
25 m (82 ft)
Population
 • Total1,175
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (GMT)
Irish Grid ReferenceS 503 162

Mooncoin (Irish: Móin Choinn, meaning 'Coyne's Bogland') is an urban area in County Kilkenny, in Ireland.[3] The population was 1,175 in 2016.[2] Historically part of the Gaelic kingdom of Osraige, today it is in the far south of the county of Kilkenny, located in the valley of the River Suir. It is surrounded by the uplands of the Slievenamon and Comeragh Mountains, just 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Waterford City along the N24 national primary road (Waterford to Limerick), and it is 48 kilometres (30 mi) south of Kilkenny.[4]

The town's name derives from an anglicized version of the Irish "Móin Choinn" which means "Coyne's Bogland".[4] The song "The Rose of Mooncoin" by poet Watt Murphy has been adopted as the Kilkenny GAA anthem. The town has continually received high scores in the Tidy Towns competition.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ Kilkenny County Council (2016). "Kilkenny County Council Elected Members". kilkennycoco.ie.
  2. ^ a b "Sapmap Area: Settlements Mooncoin". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference logainmMooncoin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference LAP2003 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "MOONCOIN" (PDF). Tidy Towns 1997.
  6. ^ "Raindance Website is Offline".
  7. ^ "Location".