placenamesKnockrath
Cnoc Rátha
A leasehold bequest helped support a charity serving the wider Rathdrum district.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cnoc Rátha · Irish · main form
- Knockrath · English · main form
Place & story
Land behind the bequest
Cullentragh Big and Cullentragh Little lie within Knockrath civil parish. Wicklow County Archives’ exhibition explains that John Tate left his interest in 895 leased acres at Cullentragh as the basis of his charity, founded in 1787. The property interest was a leasehold bequest; the exhibition’s acreage does not establish the combined area of the two modern townlands. [2] [3] [4]
Who could benefit
Tate’s will required beneficiaries to have lived in Rathdrum parish for at least three years and expressly allowed assistance regardless of religious differences. The charity’s normal support took the form of interest-free loans repayable within twelve months, with donations reserved for exceptional hardship. These were conditions for support across the wider parish, rather than benefits confined to Cullentragh’s inhabitants. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Coordinates
- 52.96900, -6.33693
- Mapped area
- 76.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2705 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knockrath. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- John Tate’s Charity: Wicklow County Council Archives digital exhibition, pages2,5–6 · Wicklow County Council Archives
- Cullentragh Big, canonical place55589 · Placenames Database of Ireland
- Cullentragh Little, canonical place55590 · Placenames Database of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.