River Inny (Leinster) River Inny (Leinster) The River Inny (Irish: "An Eithne") is a river within the Shannon River Basin in Ireland. The Inny is 40 miles (64 km) in length It begins as a stream on Patrickstown hill, one of the peaks which form the Loughcrew complex of megalithic tombs, near Oldcastle in County Meath and marks the boundary between Meath and Cavan for about four miles before it enters Lough Sheelin in County Cavan. From Lough Sheelin it forms the boundary between Westmeath and Cavan, and flows under the bridge of Finea into Lough Kinale where counties Cavan and Westmeath meet
Westmeath GAA week-night fixture in the GAA championship: on 20 June 1935 they played Meath in Kells and lost by 2-7 to 0-9. The footballers won the 1929 junior championship, lost to Dublin by ten points in 1960 and then beat Dublin to reach the 1931 Leinster final. They beat Carlow, Laois and Offaly to go into a 1949 final against Meath, but were well beaten on both occasions. Twenty years later they reached the National Football League semi-final. Westmeath beat Dublin again in the 1967 Championship and the 1984 Centenary Cup campaign and qualified for their second League semi-final in 1994.