Moylough

Moylough (/mɔɪˈlɒx/ moy-LOKH; Irish: Maigh Locha, meaning 'plain of the lake')[2][3] is a rural village located in County Galway, Ireland.

[7][8] Amenities within Moylough include a national (primary) school, Garda station, post office and community centre.

[9] Many of the village's amenities lie within the townland of Moylough More, including the local Catholic church (built c. 1830).

[11] Moylough is the birthplace of Thomas Higgins who became the shortest serving MP in Westminster when, representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was posthumously declared elected a Member of Parliament of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 26 January 1906.

[citation needed] There is a statue of the Galway Gaelic footballer Enda Colleran in the town.