placenamesRathcline
Ráth Claon
An 1837 account describes local materials turned into roof timbers and mantelpieces.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Claon · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rathcline · English · main form
Place & story
Materials recovered from the landscape
Oak and fir found in Rathcline parish’s bogs supplied roof timbers for poorer households, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description. Local limestone was quarried for building and agricultural purposes, while a speckled black-and-white marble was worked into mantelpieces. These uses linked the parish landscape with practical household construction and decorative stonework. Lewis did not name particular quarries, workshops or houses, so the account does not identify the origin of any surviving mantelpiece or roof. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathcline. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathcline: 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.