placenamesRaymunterdoney
Ráith
Lewis recorded the cross’s length and its position on the ground in 1837.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ráith · Irish · main form · validated name
- Raymunterdoney · English · main form
Place & story
The cross in Lewis’s account
Samuel Lewis described a remarkable cross lying on the ground in Raymunterdoney’s old churchyard in 1837. He gave its length as twenty-one feet. This was a measurement of the fallen monument, rather than the height of a cross then standing upright. His parish description separately recorded a church erected in 1803 with a £500 Board of First Fruits gift. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 55.12072, -8.02944
- Mapped area
- 45.62 km²
- Logainm ID
- 812 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Raymunterdoney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Raymunterdony or Raymunterdoyne, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-21. How this page was prepared.