placenamesRathcool
Ráth Cuala
Landed Estates places Rocklow in this Tipperary parish and traces its nineteenth-century occupation.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Cuala · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathcool · English · main form
Place & story
A residence held from Hugh Barton
Rocklow, in Rathcool parish, was the home of Benjamin Frend and his wife Eliza Gough during the first half of the nineteenth century, according to the University of Galway’s Landed Estates database. Benjamin is recorded there from at least 1814 into the 1850s. At Griffith’s Valuation the property was held from Hugh Barton and valued at more than £37. The database later associates the house with the Massy family. This sequence distinguishes the Frends’ residence from the landlord relationship recorded at valuation. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.49369, -7.71069
- Mapped area
- 23.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2322 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathcool. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rocklow, County Tipperary — Landed Estates database · University of Galway, Landed Estates database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.