placenamesRathkenny
Ráth Cheannaigh
Lewis described a stone-faced chapel and a proposed change to local schooling in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Cheannaigh · Irish · main form
- Rathkenny · English · main form
Place & story
Building and education in the parish
Samuel Lewis described a large Catholic chapel as newly built in Rathkenny in 1837. He noted its Gothic design and front faced with dressed stone, without supplying an exact completion year. Alongside it, a Catholic school was being considered for connection with the National Board. That wording records a proposal rather than completed admission to the national system. Lewis separately counted forty boys and twenty girls in a private school and described the Church of Ireland church as a small modern building. The figures for that private school should not be assigned to the Catholic school whose future organisation was under discussion. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.74415, -6.65188
- Mapped area
- 22.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1914 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathkenny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathkenny, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.