placenamesRacavan
Ráth Cabháin
Lewis distinguished organised clothing assistance from money left to the poor but not yet received.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ráth Cabháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Racavan · English · main form
Place & story
Clothing supported by subscription
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Racavan records a clothing society providing clothes annually for fifty males and fifty females. It was supported by subscription, as was an institution accommodating poor people. The description records organised local relief alongside the parish’s better-known linen economy. [2]
A legacy not yet paid
A Mr Jamieson had left £600 to the poor in 1829. Lewis expressly stated that the legacy had not yet been paid over when he wrote. The bequest therefore cannot be counted as money already available to the parish’s relief institutions in 1837. He supplied no explanation for the delay. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Antrim Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.85362, -6.28707 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 71.37 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61264 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Racavan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Racavan or Rathcavan — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.