[2] The name mudla wirra comes from the Kaurna language, but may have been misinterpreted in multiple sources, perhaps arising from the online version of Manning's Index.

[3] It has been reported that mudla means" implement", giving rise to the translation "a forest where implements are obtained",[4] but in a newer publication (revised in 2012), Manning writes "Professor Tindale says that an alternative derivation is based on the word mudla meaning ‘nose’" (as in the Kaurna name for the Lefevre Peninsula, mudlanga),[5] and other sources confirm this.

[8] The first District Council of Mudla Wirra was established in 1854, bringing local government to the entire Hundred of Mudla Wirra and parts of the adjacent hundreds of Grace and Port Gawler.

In 1856 the new District Council of Port Gawler assumed administration of those western parts outside the Hundred of Mudla Wirra.

In 1857 the Town of Gawler was established at the south east corner of the hundred, annexing a small parts of Mudla Wirra.