placenamesShinrone
Suí an Róin
Lewis placed milling within a parish chiefly occupied in farming.
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
- Suí an Róin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Shinrone · English · main form
Place & story
Milling and the trading calendar
The Lesser Brosna crossed Shinrone parish when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. Most inhabitants worked in agriculture, while flour milling formed the trade he singled out: substantial mills operated at Keelogues, with two smaller mills also recorded. Tillage predominated on the parish’s limestone-based land. In the town, a market existed but was not held regularly; livestock fairs met on 9 July and 21 November. His account distinguishes the mills’ industrial role from the farming work and intermittent trading gatherings of the wider district. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shinrone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shinrone, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
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