placenamesTallaght
Tamhlacht
Roof forms and high windows distinguish a church built during Dublin’s suburban expansion.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Tamhlacht · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tallaght · English · main form
Place & story
Light beneath a sloping roof
Saint Aengus’s Catholic church on Castletymon Road is dated to about 1975 by the architectural inventory. A single sloping roof covers the nave, with high windows beneath its eaves. Along the southern side, a lower roof shelters an annexe with paired full-height windows divided by concrete uprights. An open canopy marks the entrance. Brown brick panels and coloured glass complete a design that the inventory places among the churches built as Dublin expanded during the 1970s. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Civil parish
- Tallaght
- Coordinates
- 53.28857, -6.35796
- Mapped area
- 4.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1411873 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tallaght. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Aengus’s Catholic church, registration11215006, recorded2002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.