placenamesInch
An Inse
Lewis recorded a charitable connection beyond Tipperary alongside Inch’s chapel and schools.
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
- An Inse · Irish · main form · validated name
- Inch · English · main form
Place & story
A rectory held in trust
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Inch in Eliogarty described the rectory as held by the Marquess of Ormonde in trust for the Ormonde poor-house at Kilkenny. Of £300 in tithes, £140 was payable to the impropriator and the remainder to the vicar. This records a connection with a Kilkenny institution, without establishing how much of the income ultimately reached its residents. [2]
Chapel and schooling
Inch formed part of the established-church union of Clogher. Its Catholic connection was with Drom and Inch, and Lewis dated the parish’s chapel to 1806. He counted about 250 children across three private schools and noted surviving remains of the older church. These details describe parish provision in 1837, without identifying individual school buildings. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inch, Eliogarty — 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.