placenamesRathconrath
Ráth Conarta
An annual contribution helped sustain a small school in Piercetown parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Conarta · Irish · main form
- Rathconrath · English · main form
Place & story
A yearly grant for education
At Ballinacurra in Piercetown parish, Mr Digby contributed £30 a year towards a school attended by about fifty children, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Lewis also recorded a private school with roughly thirty pupils in the parish. The account distinguishes an annual contribution from the cost of erecting a schoolhouse; it gives no building date or individual pupil names. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathconrath. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Piercetown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2016-09-29. How this page was prepared.