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Mohill () is a town in County Leitrim, Ireland. The town of Carrick-on-Shannon is approximately 16 km away. The town is built on a slope toward the Rinn River and is centred on a cross-road of the Main Street and the principal cross streets of Glebe Street and Hyde Street. Hyde Street is named for Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland, whose father and grandfather lived on the street and who spent part of his childhood in the town. ==History== Mohill, or ''Maothail Manachain'', is named for St. Manachan, who founded a monastery there as early as 500AD. The Monastery was taken over by Augustinians in the 13th century and was later closed in the time of King Henry VIII. The site of the settlement is now occupied by a Protestant church and graveyard, but ruins remain nearby of a round tower. Hyde Street is named after Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland, whose father and grandfather lived on the street and who spent part of his childhood in the town. Ownership of the town passed to the Crofton family during the plantations and areas around the town were owned by the Clements family (Lord Leitrim),〔(loughrynn.net )〕 who built the nearby Lough Rynn estate and was also the owner of what is now Áras an Uachtaráin. Mohill Poor Law Union was formed 12 September 1839 and covered an area of . The population falling within the union at the 1831 census had been 66,858. The new workhouse, built in 1840-42, occupied a site and was designed to accommodate 700 inmates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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