MacMurrough

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MacMurrough is a townland in the parish of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland. According to local tradition, it is named after Dermot MacMurrough, a 12th-century king of Leinster, Dermot MacMurrough, [1] who is supposed to have had a hunting lodge there. The lodge, if that is what it was, was destroyed during railway construction in the nineteenth century.

References

  1. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Dermot Macmurrough". Encyclopædia Britannica.

52°24′47″N6°55′19″W / 52.413°N 6.922°W / 52.413; -6.922