placenamesShrule
Sruthail
Lewis distinguished work within Shrule from mills across its parish boundary.
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
- Sruthail · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Shrule · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of rural production
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded spinning and weaving in several farmhouses in Shrule parish, County Longford. He also described flour mills near Shrule bridge, while explicitly placing those mills in the neighbouring parish of Nogheval. Their annual output was about 4,000 barrels of flour. Keeping that distinction preserves his picture of household textile work in Shrule alongside larger-scale milling nearby. The Royal Canal also passed through Shrule parish. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shrule. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shruel, Longford — 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.