placenamesSaint Mullin's
Tigh Moling
Monastic ruins and the end of the Barrow Navigation meet in this riverside village.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tigh Moling · Irish · main form · validated name
- Saint Mullin's · English · main form
Place & story
The ecclesiastical site
Saint Mullin’s grew around the monastery founded by Moling in the seventh century. The surviving complex includes the remains of a round tower, churches, a mill and a holy well. The oldest church fabric is dated to around the tenth or eleventh century. A Norman motte and bailey adds a later defensive earthwork, while the graveyard includes burials of participants in the 1798 Rebellion. [2]
The river route
The village marks the endpoint of the Barrow Navigation. Waterways Ireland also identifies it as an end of the Barrow Way walking route, which follows the river corridor towards Athy. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Saint Mullin's Lower
- Civil parish
- Saint Mullin's
- Within
- Saint Mullin's
- Coordinates
- 52.47963, -6.92543 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412417 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Mullin's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Mullins Ecclesiastical Village · Office of Public Works
- St Mullins: Barrow Way · Waterways Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.