placenamesTawny
An Tamhnaigh
At the western end of Tamney, St. Columba’s Parochial House preserves a late nineteenth-century domestic landmark.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Tamhnaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tawny · English · main form
Place & story
A house for the parish
St. Columba’s Parochial House dates from about 1885. Its two-storey frontage centres on a porch with an arched doorway, sidelights and a fanlight, approached by stone steps. The house retains a slate roof and timber sash windows, while later extensions stand behind it. Set in its own garden at the western end of Tamney, it is associated with St. Columba’s Catholic church at Massmount to the north. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage recorded its continuing use as a parochial house in 2010. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog
- Within
- Rosnakill
- Within
- Tawny
- Coordinates
- 55.19773, -7.70160 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413095 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tawny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St. Columba’s Parochial House, Tawny (Rosnakill), Tamney, record 40901725 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.