Rathcoole

Rathcoole is an outer suburban village, south west of the metropolis of Dublin, inside the jurisdiction of South Dublin, Ireland. Rath is the Irish phrase for a ring castle, a circular embankment often erected by means of wealthy farmers or local chiefs. There are numerous forts inside the civil parish of Rathcoole, one in a area between the village and Saggart village. There is no particular reason for the call Rathcoole, but it can well be Rath Cumhaill that means the ringfort of Cumhaill, the father of Fionn mac Cumhaill. Coole may additionally come from the Irish word for woodland, coill.

Like neighboring Saggart, and nearby Newcastle, Rathcoole became on the periphery of the Pale and was the website online of many battles with mountain based rebels, particularly the Byrnes and O Tooles. The village had licence to hold a buying and selling fair 3 times a year, a culture which lapsed within the 19th century. The village becomes the birthplace in 1765 of the United Irishman Felix Rourke, and any other local, a member of the Clinch family of Rathcoole House, become completed after the 1798 rising. In the late 18th century Rathcoole was composed especially of mud huts and as past due because the early 20th century it consisted of most effective one street.