placenamesRathbeggan
Ráth Beagáin
Lewis distinguished grants for two parish buildings in 1817.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Beagáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rathbeggan · English · main form
Place & story
Gifts and a loan
Samuel Lewis recorded the building of Rathbeggan’s glebe-house in 1817 with assistance from the Board of First Fruits: a gift of four hundred and fifty pounds and a loan of one hundred pounds. He separately noted an eight-hundred-pound gift towards the parish church in the same year. The amounts relate to different buildings and distinguish money given from money lent; they are not stated as the complete cost of either project. Lewis’s 1837 description also identified Rathbeggan House as John Standish’s seat and recorded quarries supplying building stone within the parish. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathbeggan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathbeggan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-02-05. How this page was prepared.