placenamesRingrone
Rinn Róin
Lewis recorded accommodation for four widows and an annual endowment.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Rinn Róin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ringrone · English · main form
Place & story
A small charitable foundation
At the ferry side near Kinsale, Ringrone parish had almshouses for four Protestant widows. Samuel Lewis attributed their foundation to Dr Worth, Bishop of Killaloe, who endowed them with £10 a year. In 1837 Lewis identified W. H. W. Newenham of Coolmore as the person then paying that sum. The account distinguishes the founder’s provision from its later payment, preserving a specific record of charitable housing beside the ferry. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Barony
- Courceys
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Coordinates
- 51.65501, -8.57938
- Mapped area
- 38.64 km²
- Logainm ID
- 675 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ringrone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ringrone: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.