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Muckanaghederdauhaulia () is a
It was formerly regarded as the longest place name (in English) in Ireland (22 letters), but awareness of longer names has challenged Muckanaghederdauhaulia. There was a hamlet within the townland which had the same name in Irish (''Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile''), but a shorter English name, Mucknasalia. The 1911 census enumerator spelled it ''Muckenaghedderdahaulia'' (23 letters) though the published report uses the 22-letter spelling.
The townland lies on a low, boggy peninsula in Camus Bay and can be reached by turning west from the R336 road at Cinn Mhara, or by going northwest on the R374 road out of
townland
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in the civil parish
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of Kilcummin in County Galway, Ireland. It is in the poor law union of Oughterard in the barony Barony may refer to:
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* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
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of Moycullen.
Name and location
It was formerly regarded as the longest place name (in English) in Ireland (22 letters), but awareness of longer names has challenged Muckanaghederdauhaulia. There was a hamlet within the townland which had the same name in Irish (''Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile''), but a shorter English name, Mucknasalia. The 1911 census enumerator spelled it ''Muckenaghedderdahaulia'' (23 letters) though the published report uses the 22-letter spelling.
The townland lies on a low, boggy peninsula in Camus Bay and can be reached by turning west from the R336 road at Cinn Mhara, or by going northwest on the R374 road out of Casla
Casla (Costello or Costelloe) is a Gaeltacht village between Indreabhán (Inverin) and An Cheathrú Rua (Carraroe) in western County Galway, Ireland. The headquarters of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta is located there. The village lies on the R3 ...
, then turning onto ''Bóthar na Scratóg'' and going north.
Population
The population recorded in those census reports which provided figures at townland level were as follows:In popular culture
The area is mentioned in Georges Perec's novel ''Life: A User’s Manual'': "In between, there had been the little harbour of Muckanaghederdauhaulia, not far from Costelloe, in Ireland’s Camus Bay...".See also
*List of longest placenames in Ireland
This is a list of the longest place names in Ireland. It includes names written in English as a single word of at least 20 letters. The vast majority of English-language place names in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names. The spell ...
References
{{County Galway Townlands of County Galway