placenamesEdentinny
Éadan an tSionnaigh
Edentinny's ridge attracted an early twentieth-century interpretation of Patrick's journeys. More recent fieldwork records the wetland landscape around the locality.
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
- Éadan an tSionnaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Edentinny · English · main form
Place & story
John Healy’s proposed sacred landscape
In his 1905 Life and Writings of St Patrick, Archbishop John Healy argued that Edentinny was the particular site of Magh Slecht associated with the saint's overthrow of Crom Cruaich. He described a limestone ridge, a steep eastern face and a strong spring issuing from its base. His identification was an antiquarian interpretation of landscape and religious narratives. It should be read as Healy's proposed location, rather than proof that the legendary events occurred here. [2]
A wetland recorded in 2023
Leitrim's 2023 wetland field survey records the site named Edentinny Ballinamore across Ardrum and Creevy townlands. Surveyors Adam Vanmechelen and Joe O'Sullivan visited on 13 July 2023 and mapped an area of 14.91 hectares in the Erne catchment. They classified it as having county conservation value. Their record supplies a modern, surveyed description of the locality's wet ground, independent of Healy's interpretation of its religious past. [3]
A publican in the photographic archive
The county library's photographic collection preserves a group portrait associated with the Ballinamore Festival publicans' race. Its catalogue identifies Patsy MacKenna of MacKennas Pub in Edentinny among publicans from the surrounding district. The entry links a named Edentinny business with the festival's social life. It does not supply a date for the photograph, so it cannot establish when the pub opened or how long it operated. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Civil parish
- Oughteragh
- Within
- Ardrum
- Coordinates
- 54.04026, -7.83020
- Logainm ID
- 1411434 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Edentinny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Life and Writings of St Patrick1905: situation of Magh Slecht · John Healy
- Leitrim Wetland Field Survey2023, siteLE58, p114 · Leitrim County Council
- Ballinamore Festival publicans’ race, photograph111061 · Leitrim County Library Local History Archive
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-05-27. How this page was prepared.