placenamesLeny
Léine
Lewis’s 1837 account records a Westmeath parish on the Dublin–Sligo coach road.
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
- Léine · Irish · main form
- Leny · English · main form
Place & story
Farming and building stone
The parish called Leney by Lewis lay on the Dublin–Sligo mail-coach road and included Ballinalack and Bunbrosna. Its land was chiefly tilled, with little bog. Black stone was quarried for buildings and paving flags, while fairs at Ballinalack took place twice yearly. The account connects local cultivation with quarrying and a regular trading place. [2]
A schoolmaster’s house and land
J. Gibbons supported the parochial school by providing its master with £10 a year, a house and garden, and two and a half acres of land. Lewis placed this school within a parish network of three public schools teaching about 150 children. The endowment shows how a teacher’s livelihood could combine a salary with accommodation and access to land. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leney — 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.