placenamesRathpatrick
Ráth Phádraig
Lewis’s 1837 account describes a quarry whose products travelled by water to Irish ports.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Phádraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathpatrick · English · main form
Place & story
From the hill to the river
Drumdorony hill supported a quarry producing breccia millstones when Samuel Lewis described Rathpatrick in 1837. He reported earlier exports to England and a continuing coastal trade to Cork, Dublin and other Irish ports. Stone lay at or near the surface, and vessels could load below the hill, opposite Great Island. Some of the largest finished stones measured five feet across, with a central opening sixteen inches wide. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathpatrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathpatrick in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.