placenamesRathaspick
Ráth Easpaig
Lewis records a twelve-arched bridge at Ballicorkey within the parish’s river landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Easpaig · Irish · main form
- Rathaspick · English · main form
Place & story
A river and a diocesan boundary
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account identifies a bridge of twelve arches over the Inny at Ballicorkey. He notes that the river there divided the dioceses of Ardagh and Meath. His description places Rathaspick parish on the Dublin–Sligo mail-coach road, with the Inny along its southern and eastern boundaries and Lough Glynn to the west. The crossing therefore belongs to a landscape in which water served both as a route obstacle and as an administrative boundary. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathaspick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathaspick, Moygoish: 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.