The name Moone comes from the Irish "Maen Colmcille" which means "Colmcille's property".[citation needed]
Location, access and development
The closest village to Moone is Timolin, less than 1 kilometre to the north, and a number of Kildare County Council development plans have provided for joint development of Moone and Timolin.[4]
The village is served by bus route 880 operated by Kildare 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.[5]
^Local Area Plan - November 2002 - Moone(PDF). kildare.ie (Report). Kildare County Council. November 2002. p. 13. Retrieved 10 January 2020. The High Cross of Moone is one of the two tallest High Crosses in the Country and [..] is located on the site of an early Christian monastery and within the remains of a church, possibly built by the Franciscans around 1300