placenamesInishrush
Inis Rois
The Inishrush area preserves traces of a settlement in Green Lough and a nearby church rebuilt during the early nineteenth century.
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 Rois · Irish · main form
- Inishrush · English · main form
Place & story
The island in Green Lough
Inishrush’s crannóg survives as a small wooded feature within the largely drained Green Lough. Nineteenth-century observers described a mound of clay and gravel surrounded by oak posts carrying horizontal timbers. The Department for Communities records that much of the structure was dismantled during that century, after drainage of the lough before 1860. Its reported association with Brian Carrach O’Neill’s seventeenth-century base remains an historical belief, rather than a securely demonstrated identification. [2]
The chapel near the village
Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop of Derry, paid for a church at Tyanee near Inishrush in 1775. The Irish Architectural Archive records its replacement in 1815–16 by a church with a three-storey belfry, three windows on its southern side and one at the east. The archive treats Michael Shanahan’s involvement in the earlier building as a scholarly attribution; it leaves the architect of the replacement unidentified. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Civil parish
- Tamlaght O'Crilly
- Coordinates
- 54.86567, -6.52023 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1166270 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inishrush. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inishrush Crannog, monument LDY 033:010 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
- County Derry, Tyanee, Church of Ireland, Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower, work 15139 · Irish Architectural Archive / Dictionary of Irish Architects
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-01-19. How this page was prepared.