Moylehid is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3291°, -7.7777°.

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Moylehid

Moylehid in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Moylehid is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Moylehid (from Irish Mulleithid/Maol Leathan 'broad bare hill') is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Boho. This townland has also been variously known as Moylehide (1609), Moolet (1659), Moylehit, Mullyleet, Mul Leathaid and Mul-leithid (hill of breadth) (1834).

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Background

History

Mylehid townland contains two scheduled historic monuments as described on the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, DOE, Scheduled Historic Monuments list (1 April 2015). These are the Eagle's Knoll Cairn passage tomb and the Moylehid ring cairn. Both sites were discovered by archaeologist Thomas Plunkett in 1894 and contain evidence of Neolithic settlement. The cairn or passage grave is laid out in a cross shaped arrangement, 13 ft long and 7 ft 4 inches wide and divided into 7 areas.

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