placenamesRathcore
Ráth Cuair
The vicar and John Bridges of London supplied most of the funds recorded by Lewis.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Cuair · Irish · main form
- Rathcore · English · main form
Place & story
A building project still under way
A schoolhouse was being erected in Rathcore parish when Samuel Lewis compiled his 1837 account. Most of its funds came from the vicar and John Bridges of London. Lewis’s wording records work in progress, rather than a completed school already teaching pupils. He separately counted about 180 children across four private schools in the parish. [2]
Limestone at Newcastle
Lewis described most of Rathcore’s good-quality land as under tillage and noted a limestone quarry at Newcastle. The Royal Canal and the Dublin–Athlone road crossed the parish, while the Blackwater formed its southern boundary with County Kildare. These details place the school project within a cultivated landscape served by major transport routes. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Deece Upper
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.43960, -6.82701
- Mapped area
- 56.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1913 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathcore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathcore — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-04-03. How this page was prepared.