placenamesEnniskeen
Inis Caoin
Lewis recorded mineral resources on Lord Gormanstown’s estate and distinguished their presence from active extraction.
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
- Inis Caoin · Irish · main form
- Enniskeen · English · main form
Place & story
Resources and discontinued workings
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Enniskeen covered a historical parish extending across Cavan and Meath. In its Meath district he recorded coal, lead and iron ore on Lord Gormanstown’s estate. None was being raised when he wrote. A coal mine and an alabaster quarry had been worked previously, but both had ceased operating. The account therefore records a local extractive industry already discontinued by 1837, alongside mineral deposits whose presence did not imply continuing production. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Morgallion
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.88456, -6.79540
- Mapped area
- 25.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1862 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Enniskeen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Enniskeen — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.