Mohill
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Mohill Maothail
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Statue of the blind harpist Turlough O'Carolan in Mohill
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 Mohill
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| Coordinates: 53°55′19″N 7°51′58″W / 53.922°N 7.866°WCoordinates: 53°55′19″N 7°51′58″W / 53.922°N 7.866°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Leitrim |
| Elevation | 82 m (269 ft) |
| Population (2017) | |
| • Total | 928 |
| Irish Grid Reference | N088963 |
Mohill (Irish: Maothail) is a town in County Leitrim, Ireland. The town of Carrick-on-Shannon is approximately 16 km (10 miles) away.
Tullyoran Court Tomb is an ancient megalithic tomb located 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) outside the town. The Justinian plague of Mohill occurred in the 6th century. Mohill, or Maothail Manachain, is named for St. Manachan, who founded the Monastery of Mohill-Manchan here c. 500-538AD. Some sources and folklore say the shrine of Manchan was kept at Monastery of Mohill-Manchan, before being moved to Lemanaghan in county Offaly for some unrecorded reason. The Monastery was taken over by Augustinians in the 13th century and was later closed in the 16th century, after the time of King Henry VIII. The site of the church is now occupied by a Protestant church and graveyard.
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), 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 215 square miles (560 km2). The population falling within the union at the 1831 census had been 66,858. The new workhouse, built in 1840-42, occupied a 6-acre (24,000 m2) site and was designed to accommodate 700 inmates. During the great famine, Anthony Trollope wrote a voyeuristic narrative on Mohill in his novel The Macdermots of Ballycloran, an early work.
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