placenamesRathronan
Ráth Rónáin
Lewis recorded an exploratory shaft and a plan to try again.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Rónáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathronan · English · main form
Place & story
An experiment at the Giant’s Grave
In 1837 Samuel Lewis reported excavations in search of coal at a height called the Giant’s Grave in Rathronan parish, north of Clonmel. The latest shaft had passed through black slaty rock and encountered a thin bed of wavellite forty feet below ground. He recorded that the proprietor intended to renew the experiment. This was an account of exploration and a proposed further attempt; Lewis did not report a productive coal mine there. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Coordinates
- 52.37790, -7.73826
- Mapped area
- 7.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2325 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathronan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathronan, Tipperary: 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.