placenamesTaghshinny
Teach Sinche
Lewis linked the Inny mills with employment and recorded several privately supported schools in the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teach Sinche · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Taghshinny · English · main form
Place & story
Grinding oatmeal on the Inny
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry for Tashinny, also called Taghshinny, places the Longford parish on the River Inny, with the Royal Canal passing through it. At Tennelick, Messrs. McCann and Sons operated large oatmeal mills and generally employed more than forty people. The entry gives a particular industry and workforce within the parish, without identifying the mills’ machinery or annual output. [2]
Different patrons, a combined attendance
At Barry, Lady Rosse partly supported a school and helped provide clothing for the children. Mrs. Jessop supported the school at Doory Hall, while William McCann supported separate schools for boys and girls. Lewis gave about 270 pupils across these schools collectively. The total should not be read as the attendance at Doory Hall alone, nor does the account establish that every pupil received clothing. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taghshinny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tashinny (Taghshinny), 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.