Rathconrath
Ráth Conarta | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Rathconrath_barony.png) Location of Rathconrath on a map of Westmeath | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Ireland_adm_location_map.svg)  Rathconrath Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°30′18″N 7°36′16″W / 53.505°N 7.6044°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Westmeath |
| Area | |
• Total | 194.5 km2 (75.1 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | N262506 |
Rathconrath (Irish: Ráth Conarta),[1] previously the barony of Rathcomyrta, before that Daltons country,[2] is a barony in the west of County Westmeath, in Ireland. It was formed by 1542.[3] It is bordered by County Longford to the north–west and five other Westmeath baronies: Moygoish to the north, Moyashel and Magheradernon to the east, Moycashel and Clonlonan to the south and Kilkenny West to the west. Note that the village of Rathconrath is not synonymous with the barony of the same name.
- ^ Rathconrath The Placenames Database of Ireland Retrieved 24 May 2015
- ^ Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543 (34 Hen. 8. c. 1 (I)); see Henry VIII Part 3. State Papers. Vol. 2. Murray. 1834. p. 7,fn.14.
- ^ "Rathconrath". townlands.ie. Retrieved 24 May 2015.