placenamesTynagh
Tíne
An 1837 description records the economic and institutional life of Tynagh parish before modern mining.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Tíne · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tynagh · English · main form
Place & story
Flour mills on the Ballyshinee
Samuel Lewis's 1837 description places Tynagh parish across the baronies of Leitrim and Longford. Alongside cultivated farmland, he recorded mills on the River Ballyshinee belonging to Mr Kelly, with capacity for more than 30,000 barrels of flour a year. This is a statement of productive capacity rather than a surviving annual output total. The mills belonged to a local economy that also included the estates of Pallas, Killeen and Flower Hill. [2]
A schoolhouse and half an acre
The parish's school provision combined patronage and private teaching. Lewis counted about 120 children in the parochial school, supported by the incumbent and Lord Clancarty. Clancarty had provided its schoolhouse and half an acre of land. Another 110 children attended three private schools. These separate totals describe several institutions serving the parish in 1837. [2]
Church income shared between institutions
Tynagh's ecclesiastical revenues were divided between several recipients. Lewis listed shares for the see of Clonfert, the prebendary of Kilmeen at Tuam and the vicars choral of Christ Church, Dublin, alongside the vicar's portion. The vicarage had been united with Doneira in 1735. The union's glebe house stood in Doneira, illustrating how its administration reached beyond Tynagh's own boundary. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tynagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tynagh, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), reproduced by Galway County Heritage Office · Samuel Lewis; Galway County Heritage Office
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.