placenamesTaghadoe
Tigh Tua
Lewis described the two contrasting structures in his 1837 parish account.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tigh Tua · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Taghadoe · English · main form
Place & story
Square piers and octagonal turrets
Samuel Lewis described Taghadoe’s church as a small building with octagonal turrets rising from square corner piers. A gift of £830 from the Board of First Fruits had assisted its construction. Nearby stood an older round tower, which he estimated at about sixty feet high and considered unusually broad for that type of structure. These are his historical observations, without a measured modern diameter or a date for the round tower’s construction. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt North
- Coordinates
- 53.34444, -6.62949
- Mapped area
- 16.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1228 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taghadoe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Taghadoe or Taptoo: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-09-06. How this page was prepared.