Muckanaghederdauhaulia

Muckanaghederdauhaulia Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile
Townland
Looking over Camus Bay at Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile
Muckanaghederdauhaulia Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′28″N 9°34′09″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Galway
Area [1]
• Total	203.5 ha (502.9 acres)
Irish Grid Reference	L955334

Muckanaghederdauhaulia (Irish: Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile, meaning 'pig-marsh between two sea inlets')^[2][3] is a 503-acre (204 ha)^[1] townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin in County Galway, Ireland. It is in the poor law union of Oughterard in the barony of Moycullen.^[2][4]

Name and location

Map of Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile

It was formerly regarded as the longest place name (in English) in Ireland (22 letters), but awareness of longer names has challenged Muckanaghederdauhaulia.^[5] There was a hamlet within the townland which had the same name in Irish (Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile), but a shorter English name, Mucknasalia.^[6][7] The 1911 census enumerator spelled it Muckenaghedderdahaulia (23 letters)^[8] though the published report uses the 22-letter spelling.^[9]

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, then turning onto Bóthar na Scratóg and going north.^[10]

Population

The population recorded in those census reports which provided figures at townland level were as follows:^[11][9]

Census year	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911
Population	103	81	79	80	111	85	101	111

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...".^[12]

See also

• List of longest placenames in Ireland

References

1. "Muckanaghederdauhaulia Townland, Co. Galway". townlands.ie. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
2. "Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile / Muckanaghederdauhaulia". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Database. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
3. Ó Máille, T. S. (1955). "Muiceanach Mar Áitainm". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (in Irish and English). 85 (1). Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland: 88–93. JSTOR 25509201.
4. "Muckanaghederdauhaulia". Ordnance Survey Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
5. "Ireland's strangest place names". irishcentral.com. Irish Central. 3 August 2010.
6. "Mucknasalia". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
7. "First-edition 6-inch map". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey Ireland. c. 1840. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
8. "Houses in Muckenaghedderdahaulia (Crumpaun, Galway)". Census of Ireland 1911. National Archives. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
9. "Census > 1911 > Ireland > Area, houses, and population, Connaught, Ireland, 1911 Page 86". HISTPOP.ORG. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
10. "Muckanaghederdauhaulia". Google Maps. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
11. "Census > 1881 > Ireland > Area, population and number of houses, Vol. IV, Ireland, 1881 Page 96". HISTPOP.ORG. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
12. Perec, Georges (2008). Life: A User's Manual. London: Vintage. p. 52. ISBN 9780099449256.