Mohill (Irish: Maothail) 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.
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), who built the nearby Lough Rynn estate and was also the owner of what is now Áras an Uachtaráin.
Mohill (Irish: Maothail) is a barony in County Leitrim, Republic of Ireland.
Mohill barony takes its name from the village of Mohill (Irish: Maothail, "soft or spongy ground").
Mohill is found in south County Leitrim, on the Cloone River, containing Lough Rynn and bordering Lough Boderg.
Mohill barony is bordered to the northeast by Carrigallen; to the northwest by Leitrim (both the preceding baronies are also in County Leitrim); to the southeast by Longford, County Longford; and to the southwest by Ballintober North, County Roscommon.
Early, this area was also part of Conmhaícne Maig Réin. The Reynolds (MacRannall) were chiefs of an area comprising much of the baronies of Mohill and Leitrim, then known as Muintir Eolais.
Below is a list of settlements in Mohill barony:
Pijani koraci u zoru
i svadja preko puta
cadjavim Cirom prema moru
sitna meza a rakija ljuta
Kisobrane popravljam
netko vice u ljetnom danu
moj poklon za njen rodjendan
prvi skok s kuce pod branu
Cuvarkuca na kapiji
u svijetlo plavom loncu
peraci peru ulice
i djeca na Vasingtoncu
Budjenje bez mljekara
k'o noc bez ljubavi
bez raspjevanih postara
pismo ne dolazi
Ref. 2x
Dobra moja mahala
kao da je zaspala
zaspala i umrla
Kukuruzi i kestenje
mirisu ispred ljetnog kina
volim rane jeseni i kad me ljubis
poslije puno vina
Im'o pa nem'o sada znam
je kletva najveca
al' me nikad nece biti sram
onog sto osjecam