placenamesInishmagrath
Inis Mac Rá
Lewis’s 1837 account records how the parish’s glebe-house and church were financed.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inis Mac Rá · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Inishmagrath · English · main form
Place & story
Two buildings, different funding
Samuel Lewis recorded that Inishmagrath’s glebe-house was built in 1815 with a £100 gift and a £750 loan from the Board of First Fruits. The parish church followed in 1830, assisted by a £923 loan from the same body. By the publication of his dictionary in 1837, repairs to the church had also received £127 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. These were separate contributions to the Church of Ireland parish buildings, rather than the building history of Saint Brigid’s Catholic church at Drumkeeran. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Coordinates
- 54.17476, -8.11078
- Mapped area
- 111.21 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1481 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inishmagrath. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Innismagrath: 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.