placenamesCurrin
Currin’s small Fermanagh parish area belongs to a historical landscape whose churches, schools and principal settlements extended into neighbouring Monaghan.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Currin · English · main form
Place & story
Six townlands in Fermanagh
The mapped Fermanagh portion of Currin covers about 385 acres in the barony of Clankelly. Its six townlands are Aghnaskew Glebe, Hermitage, Lisnadurk Glebe North, Lisnadurk Glebe South, Lisnadurk Middle and Renogher Glebe. This identifies a parish area rather than a village called Currin, and distinguishes it from the separate Fermanagh townlands sharing that name in other civil parishes. [2]
A much larger historical parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account explicitly describes Currin as crossing the Fermanagh–Monaghan boundary, with 385 acres in Fermanagh out of 11,372 acres overall. His description of arable farming, linen manufacture, lakes and scarce fuel concerns that wider parish. So too does his population of 7,180, which includes Drum and Scotshouse. The historical total therefore cannot be used as a population figure for the small Fermanagh portion alone. [3]
Churches and schools across the county boundary
The wider parish’s Church of Ireland institutions included the parochial church at Scotshouse and a chapel of ease at Drum. Lewis also recorded a Catholic chapel at Scotshouse, two Presbyterian meeting houses in Drum and six Sunday schools. His list of other schools ran across several localities, including Scotshouse, Carnagarry, Laurel Hill and Drum. These institutions locate the Fermanagh portion within a broader parish network, without moving those Monaghan buildings across the county boundary. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Currin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Civil Parish of Currin, County Fermanagh: mapped townlands · Townlands.ie, OpenStreetMap-derived mapping
- Currin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2007-12-17. How this page was prepared.