Taughboyne
title: "Taughboyne" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["civil-parishes-of-county-donegal"] topic_path: "general/civil-parishes-of-county-donegal" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taughboyne" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Taughboyne |
| native_name | ga |
| settlement_type | Civil Parish |
| image_skyline | Taughboyne Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 646062.jpg |
| image_caption | Taughboyne Parish Church |
| pushpin_map | Ireland |
| pushpin_label_position | left |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in Ireland |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Ireland |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Ulster |
| subdivision_type3 | County |
| subdivision_name3 | County Donegal |
| leader_title1 | Dáil Éireann |
| leader_name1 | Donegal |
| unit_pref | Metric |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| timezone1 | WET |
| utc_offset1 | +0 |
| timezone1_DST | IST (WEST) |
| utc_offset1_DST | -1 |
| coordinates | |
| blank_name | Irish Grid Reference |
| blank_info | |
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|name = Taughboyne |native_name = ga |settlement_type = Civil Parish |image_skyline = Taughboyne Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 646062.jpg |image_caption = Taughboyne Parish Church |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = left |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Ulster |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = County Donegal |established_title = |established_date = |leader_title1 = Dáil Éireann |leader_name1 = Donegal |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_total = |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = WET |utc_offset1 = +0 |timezone1_DST = IST (WEST) |utc_offset1_DST = -1 |coordinates = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = |website = |footnotes = Taughboyne ( meaning "house of Baithen") is a civil parish, in County Donegal, Ireland.
Taughboyne is located 8 km West-South-West from Derry, on the road to Raphoe; containing, with the village and ancient disfranchised borough of St Johnston, 6335 inhabitants (in 1837). St. Baithen, son of Brendan, a disciple and kinsman of St Columba, and his successor in the abbey of Hy, founded Tegbaothin in Tyrconnell: he flourished towards the close of the sixth century. The parish, according to the Ordnance survey, comprises an area of 15,773 statute acres, including a large portion of bog: the land is chiefly arable, and of good quality. There are some extensive slate quarries, but the slates are small and of a coarse quality.
The River Foyle, which bounds the parish on the east, is navigable for small boats to St. Johnstown, where a fair is held on 25 Nov.. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Raphoe, and in the patronage of the Marquess of Abercorn: the tithes amount to £1569. 4. 7.; and the glebe, comprising 317 acre, is valued at £260. 6. 5. per annum (in c.1837). The glebe-house was originally built in 1785, at a cost of £1313 British, and subsequently improved at an expense of £1399 by the then incumbent. The church was erected in 1626; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £268 for its repair. In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Lagan, or Raymochy; the chapel was built about 1787. In the parochial school partly supported by an endowment of Col. Robertson, a school under the London Hibernian Society, and two schools supported by subscription, about 200 children are educated; there are also nine private schools, in which are about the same number of children, and five Sunday schools: two school-houses were erected by the Marquess of Abercorn around 1830. There is a dispensary for the poor.
References
- A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland By Samuel Lewis, 1837 (public domain)
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