BROWSE
townland
Ráth Cúil
genitive: Ráth Cúil
(Irish)
Rathcool
(English)

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    ‘(the) back ring(fort)’

  • English

    ‘(the) back ring(fort)’

Centrepoint

53.4953, -6.4319latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1575
Rathecoules land
(2268). Lease, under queen's letter, 16 Ap., 1574, to Jasper English. Horsey, esq. ; of the tithes of corn, hay, and turf, of the long tithe of the parish of Rathtowth, extending to ...Pecobeston, both the Glascanes, Raieston, Golding's land, and Rathecoules land, our Ladie land by Rywen crosse, land in Much Ballibyn in the holding of Ann Begge, co. Meath (leased by Henry, abbot of S. Thomas the martyr, xx. Hen. VIII.,… F 2579
F
1630
Rathcoule
Nic' Sedgrave ... de Ballehacke .... le grange juxta Ballehacke ... littleGlaskarne ... Goulding's leys & Rathcoule ... le moore vocat' Mooredowan & de medietat' vil' de Rathcrossane ... Killrone ... Rathbeggan ... Enostown ... Joh' Plunckett de Loghgowre
Inq. Lag. CI 57
1630
Rathcoule
Nic' Sedgrave ... de Ballehacke .... le grange juxta Ballehacke ... littleGlaskarne ... Goulding's leys & Rathcoule ... le moore vocat' Mooredowan & de medietat' vil' de Rathcrossane ... Killrone ... Rathbeggan ... Enostown ... Joh' Plunckett de Loghgowre
Inq. Lag. CI 57
1654
Rathcoole
Litle Glascarne & Rathcoole pte of the land of Pecockstown ... Bounded on the east & all other sides with the Lands of Pecockstownu being intermixt with the said lands & hath thereon two houses ... Rich : Segrave of Rathbegan Irish Papist
CS V 103
1660c
Rathcoole
Rich. Sedgrave Ir: p
BSD (Mí)
1812
Rathcool
Larkin (Mí)
1828
Rathcoole
TAB
1836
Rathcoole
DS:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Rathcowle
Inq. Eliz. I:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Rath cúile, 'front of the corner or angles'
"This is mentioned in the Tripartite life of St. Patrick part III C. 14." [Nóta OD]
OD:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Ráth cúl
OC:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Ráth cúl
pl:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Rathcool
OD:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Rath-tool
GJRates (Old Docket): AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Rath-tool
HCSV:AL Leathanach: Mí100,78
1836
Rathcool
Larkin (Mí):AL Leathanach: Mí100,78

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