placenamesInishkeen
Inis Caoin
Lewis records shared funding for the parish’s teaching premises.
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 · validated name
- Inishkeen · English · main form
- Inniskeen · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A school building funded in two ways
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Inishkeen account describes a stone parochial schoolhouse built for £200. Subscriptions and a grant from the Lord-Lieutenant’s fund together paid for it; he does not state how much came from either source. Two Sunday schools were also recorded. The £200 is the building’s reported cost, rather than an annual teaching grant or the amount contributed by the government alone. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inishkeen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inniskeen (Monaghan): 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.