placenamesRaheny
Ráth Eanaigh
Lewis recorded a hundred-pound legacy alongside local medical and judicial services in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Eanaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Raheny · English · main form
Place & story
Parish assistance and village services
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records that Mrs. Preston had left one hundred pounds for Raheny’s poor in 1831. He supplied no first name or details of how the bequest was administered. A dispensary served the village, but the entry does not identify the legacy as its funding. Lewis separately recorded a constabulary station and petty sessions on alternate Thursdays. Beyond the village, much of the parish was meadow and pasture, with wheat grown on the arable land and limestone quarried for building and agricultural use. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Raheny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Raheny, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.