placenamesLynn
Lainn
Lewis identifies two different arrangements for education within the parish.
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
- Lainn · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Lynn · English · main form
Place & story
Private support and shared premises
At Lynnbury, R. Bourne entirely supported a day school and Sunday school, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Elsewhere in Lynn parish, about seventy-five children attended a school held inside the Catholic chapel, which the account places at Gainstown. The two arrangements are recorded separately: Lewis did not give the Lynnbury schools’ attendance or identify the chapel school’s financial supporters. His description preserves both a privately maintained institution and the use of a religious building for teaching. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Fartullagh
- Coordinates
- 53.49259, -7.32316
- Mapped area
- 19.85 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2481 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lynn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lynn, 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.