placenamesTacumshin
Teach Coimseáin
Lewis’s parish account distinguishes the seasonal herring fleet from boats working for longer stretches of the year.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teach Coimseáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tacumshin · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of fishing work
Samuel Lewis reported one hundred open boats, or cots, employed in Tacumshin’s herring season in 1837, each with a crew of five. He separately counted twenty boats taking shellfish for eight or nine months of the year. Lobsters and oysters were among the catches named in his account. These figures describe the fishing activity reported along the parish shore; they do not establish that the two groups of boats or their crews were entirely separate. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tacumshin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tacumshane: 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.