placenamesTomgraney
Tuaim Gréine
Medieval stonework and a modern family workshop offer different views of craft in Tomgraney.
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
- Tuaim Gréine · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tomgraney · English · main form
Place & story
The church’s reused carvings
St Cronan’s has a tenth-century western section and an eastern extension dated to the twelfth century by sculpture specialist Tessa Garton. Her field survey records a lintelled west doorway, carved capitals on the eastern corner shafts and fragments incorporated into later work. Restoration in the 1990s revealed Romanesque stones reused inside the dividing wall, strengthening the case that much of the carving belonged to the medieval church itself. [2]
A weaving workshop takes root
Anke and Eugene McKernan returned from Germany to Ireland in 1991 and settled in Tomgraney. Their own account describes renovating a ruined property as a home and later adding a weaving workshop. The scarf-making business subsequently expanded onto the neighbouring site with a larger workshop, shop and café. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Civil parish
- Tomgraney
- Within
- Tomgraney
- Coordinates
- 52.89671, -8.53499 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412569 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tomgraney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Cronan, Tuamgraney, Clare — item 15302 · Tessa Garton, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- Our Story — McKernan Woollen Mills · Anke and Eugene McKernan
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.