Rathlin, a picturesque, cliff-girt island (6½ by 1-1/3 m.) off the N. coast of Antrim; fishing is the chief industry; has interesting historical associations.
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rataña * Ratich, Wolfgang