placenamesMayne
Maighean
Lewis’s 1837 account records routes across the Inny and several forms of school patronage.
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
- Maighean · Irish · main form
- Mayne · English · main form
Place & story
Across the bog from Coole
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description places Mayne parish in Demifore, County Westmeath, with Lough Derravaragh to the south and bogland crossed by the River Inny to the west. Roads from Coole crossed the bog and river using a float or ferry. Lewis also recorded fairs at Coole on 20 May and 20 November. These are descriptions of the parish’s nineteenth-century routes and trading calendar. [2]
Family grants and school buildings
The parochial schools received annual grants from the Pakenham family, while Lord Longford had provided a house and an acre of land. At Turbotstown, the Dease family chiefly supported another school. Lewis counted about 126 children across these schools, separately listing about 86 pupils in two private schools and mentioning a Sunday school. His totals do not give the enrolment of each individual school. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mayne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mayne (Westmeath), 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.