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"• Pinkman: Muing = A fen or a morass. Muing is the dative or locative case of mong, and used as a nominative. Mong means a thick growth of hair or grass, coarse growth, the mane of a horse, and, in a transferred sense, a few, a sedgy morass or swamp, a place that grows long mane-like grass…. It had four small forts."

"• Arch. Inventory Rath. On the N-facing slope of Mong Hill (115). Cashel. At the N end of the crest of Mong Hill (115). Rath. Towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of Mong Hill (116). Rath. On a terrace towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Mong Hill (116). Rath. On a terrace towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of Mong Hill (116). Rath. On the W-facing slope of Mong Hill (116). Cashel. Towards the top of the W-facing slope of Mong Hill (116). Cashel. At the crest of the E-facing slope of Mong Hill (116). Enclosure. Towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of Mong Hill (157). Earthwork (site, possible). In a marshy area at the bottom of the E-facing slope of Mong Hill (169). Windmill. ‘Windmill Stump.’ On a flat-topped, grass-covered mound at the S end of the ridge of Mong Hill (230). "

• Féach Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Soc. Iml 1, Uimh.3 (fotócóip)

'hair, or mane'

'hair, rushes, or long grass'

"…it contains four small forts and the ruins of a windmill in the southern end."