Knockmoyle West

Knockmoyle West in Irish “An Cnoc Maol Thiar” meaning bare or bald hill west. In the electoral division of Marblehill it is 386.41 acres or 156.37 hectares in size.

Knockmoyle West borders Cloghvoley, Knockmoyle East and Reynabrone.

What we recorded

Placenames

2 (0 Irish-origin)

By type

• 1 bridge
• 1 bog

Houses

3

Map

Placenames

Houses

Population

In the 1841 census there were 26 people and 5 houses and in the 1851 census it was up to 52 people, 8 inhabited and 1 uninhabited houses in the townland. In the 1840 map there were just 2 houses or outbuildings marked. In the Griffith’s Valuation there were 3 houses and 4 landholders. In the 1901 census there were 4 residences and 26 inhabitants and in the 1911 census there were 4 residences and 23 inhabitants.

Land and Household Records

Landholders and heads of household recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books, Griffith’s Valuation, and the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses.