placenamesRathcabban
Ráth Cabáin
The village’s national school connects the earlier Gurteen schools with a post-war building and a community anniversary.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Cabáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathcabban · English · main form
Place & story
From Gurteen to St Flannan’s
Rathcabbin National School traces its origins to Gurteen’s separate boys’ and girls’ schools, dating from 1833. Its present building belongs to the years immediately after the Second World War. The school community’s anniversary announcement explains that completion had been expected in 1946, but construction delays meant the first classes took place in October 1947. [2] [3]
The school marked its seventy-fifth anniversary with a community celebration in October 2022. Its own history records the occasion as part of the continuing relationship between the school and local families. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Dorrha
- Coordinates
- 53.12078, -8.02838 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 67245 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathcabban. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathcabbin National School: School History · Rathcabbin National School
- 75th anniversary celebrations at Rathcabbin school · Rathcabbin school anniversary organisers, published by Nenagh Guardian
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-14. How this page was prepared.