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According to Joyce <i>>foil</i> means <i>cliff</i>.

Muck can mean pig, but occasionally it is a perversion of <i>magh</>, meaning a 'plain' - only usually in the transliterated English version of the name though.

All things considered I would say that Foilnamuck is probably 'Cliff of the Pig'.

Oh, c'mon..."Cliff of [over, overlooking] the plain."