placenamesTirkennedy
Tír Cheannada
Linen weaving and matmaking shared the village’s working life.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Tír Cheannada · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tirkennedy · English · main form
Place & story
Making goods and finding work
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Lisbellaw account records residents weaving linen and making mats from bulrushes. Corn mills with attached drying kilns added another form of local processing. The village’s fairs chiefly traded cattle and pigs, but the May and November gatherings were also important occasions for hiring servants. This gives the fairs a labour-market role alongside the sale of livestock, without identifying a particular mat design or manufacturing technique. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tirkennedy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lisbellaw: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.