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Eifinn
The diocesan heritage project recorded local objects and inscriptions beyond the later parish church.
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
- Eifinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Effin · English · main form
Place & story
A silver chalice dated 1633
The Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project documented a silver chalice used at Effin bearing the date 1633. Its inscription names Aegidius Hiffernane, Eleanora Gibbon and Cornelius Hiffernane. The account supplies evidence for the dated object without identifying its maker or tracing how it reached Effin. [2]
A headstone beside the ruins
The same project distinguished Effin’s old graveyard, a short distance from the later church. Beside the ruins in its centre, its surveyors found a memorial to Mairen Fore, dated 24 March 1747 and recording her age as fifty-five. They described it as the oldest headstone they found, which does not establish the date of the graveyard’s first burial. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Effin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Effin Parish: Diocesan Heritage Project · Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.