placenamesKinawley
Cill Náile
Derrylin served as a meeting place for trade and local justice in Lewis’s 1837 parish account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Náile · Irish · main form
- Kinawley · English · main form
Place & story
A calendar of public business
Samuel Lewis recorded fortnightly petty sessions at Derrylin in 1837, alongside fairs on 27 May and 27 October. These recurring gatherings made the settlement a place for both local legal business and periodic trade. Derrylin lay within the Fermanagh portion of Kinawley. Lewis’s broader parish description also included land in Cavan, so its combined population and school totals cannot be treated as figures for the Fermanagh parish alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Barony
- Knockninny
- Coordinates
- 54.20769, -7.62206 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 144.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58924 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kinawley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kinawley: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-01-22. How this page was prepared.