placenamesInishmacsaint
Inis Maí Samh
Lewis recorded both institutional funding and teaching in a domestic building.
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
- Inis Maí Samh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Inishmacsaint · English · main form
Place & story
Different settings for parish education
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Inishmacsaint account records a parochial school built with a £200 bequest from the late J. Nixon, a clergyman. The rector contributed £5 annually towards its support. A separate school occupied the rector’s gatehouse, where girls learned needlework from his family. These details concern distinct educational arrangements within the wider historical parish, which extended into Donegal as well as Fermanagh; they do not locate every school in the modern Fermanagh record. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magheraboy
- Coordinates
- 54.44335, -7.89727 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 186.98 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2982 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inishmacsaint. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Innismacsaint: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.