A coin issued by Patrick Lynch of Shruel (Shrewel) stored in the British Museum , item 1933,0413.959 . This is a metal alloy token , value One Penny issued by Patrick Lynch of Shrule House then situated in Shrule Grove (near Alan Dowd’s) . Tokens as this were used as local currency .
The coin weighs 1.08 grammes and has been catalogued in Williamson 1889 as the following :
Williamson, George C; Boyne, William (original author), Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales and Ireland by corporations, merchants, tradesmen etc., Volumes 1-2, London, 1889