Timolin
{{short description |Village in County Kildare, Ireland}}
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Timolin ({{Irish place name|Tigh Mo Linne|Moling's house}}A. D. Mills, 2003, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press) is a village in the south of County Kildare, Ireland. It is located off the R448 road, the former N9 road (now by-passed by the M9 motorway) about {{convert|80|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Dublin. It is a small village, with less than a hundred inhabitants, one shop and two pubs. It is located close to the Moone High Cross Inn.[http://www.kildare.ie/touristguide/towns/moone.asp County Kildare: Moone] The closest village to Timolin is Moone, less than 1 kilometre to the south. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1246 | title = Tigh Moling/Timolin | work = Placenames Database of Ireland | access-date = 30 January 2024}}
Public transport
The village is served by bus route 880 operated by Kildare & South Dublin Local Link. There are several buses each day including Sunday linking the village to Castledermot, Carlow and Naas as well as villages in the area.{{Cite web|url=http://www.martinheydon.com/2015/08/1879/|title=Locals Encouraged to Use New Bus Route Serving Villages from Castledermot to Kilcullen|date=14 August 2015}}
History
During the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s Timolin was the scene of a notorious massacre. A stronghouse in the village, in which many civilians were sheltering, was attacked by an army under Ormonde. After it had been captured around 200 civilians were killed.{{fact|date=December 2021}}
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Category:Towns and villages in County Kildare
Category:Civil parishes of County Kildare
Category:Townlands of County Kildare
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