placenamesTinnahinch
Tigh na hInse
Lewis’s industrial survey identifies the founders, products and scale of an early foundry.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tigh na hInse · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tinnahinch · English · main form
Place & story
J. and D. Roberts from Anglesea
Samuel Lewis recorded that J. and D. Roberts, from Anglesea, established an iron and brass foundry at Mountmellick in 1834. By his 1837 account it employed about forty people, making steam and locomotive engines as well as general machinery. Mountmellick lay chiefly in Tinnahinch but extended into Portnehinch. The foundry’s reported workforce is therefore a specific establishment figure, not a total for the town’s much larger textile and manufacturing economy. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tinnahinch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mount-Mellick: 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.