placenamesRahan
Raithean
Surviving programmes and the Jesuit archive document recreation alongside the former college’s changing religious role.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Raithean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rahan · English · main form
Place & story
A Shrovetide programme
The Irish Jesuit Archives preserve an 1885 programme for Shrovetide at Saint Stanislaus’s College, Tullabeg. Its catalogue lists The Man with the Iron Mask, All at Coventry and The Smoked Miser. This is evidence of a specific advertised theatrical occasion, rather than proof of an unbroken annual village custom. [2]
Training and later gatherings
The order’s archive dates Tullabeg’s novitiate to 1888–1930, following the school’s amalgamation with Clongowes in 1886. Philosophical training followed in 1930–62. The Jesuits’ bicentenary account records retreats, garden fêtes and employment schemes from the 1960s until the house and public church closed in 1991. These successive uses place education, religious formation and community gatherings within the history of the same complex. [3] [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rahan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shrovetide programme1885, IEIJA FM/TULL/316 · Irish Jesuit Archives, catalogue hosted by Offaly Archives
- Saint Stanislaus College Tullabeg fondsIEIJA FM/TULL · Irish Jesuit Archives, catalogue hosted by Offaly Archives
- 200years at Tullabeg,9April2019 · Jesuits Ireland, Irish Jesuit Archives and Offaly Archives
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.