placenamesTagheen
Teach Chaoin
St Michael’s preserves part of a nineteenth-century chapel within its twentieth-century form.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teach Chaoin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tagheen · English · main form
Place & story
An older shell, a new interior
St Michael’s Catholic Church at Tagheen was rebuilt in 1955 under Father James Mulrennan. The national architectural survey identifies surviving fabric from a chapel of 1834, shown with a smaller footprint on the first Ordnance Survey map. [2]
The cruciform building has slender pointed windows and a three-part window above its western entrance. Inside, a timber-panelled choir gallery faces the sanctuary. Memorial stained glass dated 1955 survives in the nave and transepts. The grounds include Mulrennan’s grave, recording his death in 1960. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Coordinates
- 53.68388, -9.07472 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411751 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tagheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Michael’s Catholic Church, Carrowkeel, Tagheen — record 31310104 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.