placenamesRathsallagh
Ráth Salach
Lewis recorded an annual September fair alongside a school supported by the Pennefather family.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Salach · Irish · main form
- Rathsallagh · English · main form
Place & story
Trade and teaching in 1837
Rathsallagh held a fair on 4 September for horses, cattle, sheep and pigs, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He described it as a particularly large gathering, though he supplied no attendance figures. Within the Rathsallagh demesne, a school was maintained entirely by the Pennefather family. Lewis also recorded oats and potatoes as the parish’s principal crops, placing the fair and school in a predominantly agricultural setting. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.03087, -6.71472
- Mapped area
- 7.21 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2718 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathsallagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathsallagh in 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.