Baile Sheinicín

Baile Sheinicín derives from the Irish word baile (townland or settlement) combined with Sheinicín, a Gaelicization of the English surname Jenkins. The place was recorded as 'Jankyneston' as early as 1403, indicating the Jenkins family's establishment in the area during the medieval period. Jenkinstown sits within the civil parish of Ballymascanlan in the barony of Lower Dundalk on the Cooley P...