placenamesBalraheen
Bairrín
Lewis distinguished a surviving castle gateway from the later mansion.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bairrín · Irish · main form
- Balraheen · English · main form
Place & story
An older entrance and a later house
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Balraheen parish describes Rathcoffey’s old castle gateway as the surviving part of the fortress. He attributed the removal of the rest to Mr Rowan when the later mansion was erected. Rathcoffey House had belonged to Archibald Hamilton Rowan, whom Lewis described as deceased, and was comparatively deserted when the directory appeared. This notice records a change in the use and condition of the estate, without establishing the construction date of the gateway or the mansion. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Coordinates
- 53.35041, -6.67963
- Mapped area
- 13.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1144 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Balraheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Balrahan or Balraheen, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.