placenamesInch
An Inis
This small south-Wexford parish has a history distinct from Inch near Gorey and the Wicklow boundary.
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 Inis · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Inch · English · main form
Place & story
A parish linked with Horetown and Newbawn
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places this Inch on the Adamstown–Ballyhack road, in Shelmalier barony and the diocese of Ferns. Its vicarage belonged to the Horetown union, while Caesar Colclough of Tintern Abbey held the impropriate rectory. Of the recorded £70 in tithes, £40 went to the impropriator and £30 to the vicar. Lewis separately places it within the Catholic district of Newbawn, illustrating how ecclesiastical administration crossed local parish divisions. [2]
Five townlands in the census
The 1901 census groups Ballyliamgow, Coolboy, Kayle, Mullinderry and Tinnarath under Inch parish. Adding their published figures gives 262 residents in 1881, 197 in 1891 and 189 in 1901. The larger Inch electoral division contained 532 people in 1901 because it also included townlands in neighbouring parishes. Keeping those totals separate avoids assigning the whole electoral division’s population to this smaller parish. The figures show change without establishing its causes. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Coordinates
- 52.31087, -6.80910
- Mapped area
- 5.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2651 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inch in Shelmalier, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Census of Ireland1901, County Wexford separately issued report, TableVII,page38 · Census Commissioners for Ireland, original1902report, Central Statistics Office archive
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.