placenamesMarhin
Márthain
Lewis recorded a burial ground still in use and livelihoods shared between land and sea.
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
- Márthain · Irish · main form · validated name
- Marhin · English · main form
Place & story
The parish in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry, headed Marhyn, placed Marhin on the southern shore of Smerwick Harbour. Some inhabitants worked in the bay’s fishery, while the parish included cultivated land, rough pasture and bog. He recorded a ruined church within a burial ground that remained generally in use. Two private schools together taught about one hundred children. The church ruin and continuing burials were separate observations: Lewis did not give the church’s foundation date or suggest that its ruin meant the surrounding graveyard had been abandoned. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Coordinates
- 52.15710, -10.38301
- Mapped area
- 10.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1113 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Marhin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Marhyn, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.