placenamesTievemore
Taobh Mór
The nearby Cashelenny church preserves evidence of the Protestant community serving the country around Tievemore and Pettigo.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Taobh Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tievemore · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel for the district
Cashelenny Church of Ireland church, near Tievemore, was built around 1836 as a chapel of ease serving the Templecarn district. The architectural inventory tentatively connects it with the subscription-funded chapel mentioned by Samuel Lewis in 1837, about four miles from Pettigo. It also suggests that the owners of Grouse Lodge and Tievemore House may have helped finance construction. [2]
A small Gothic church
The church has a simple rectangular hall, a projecting entrance porch and a stone bellcote above the entrance end. Pointed windows contain timber sashes, with intersecting glazing bars in some openings and coloured glass in others. Rubble-stone boundary walls and a wrought-iron gate enclose its roadside grounds. The restrained building served a dispersed rural population rather than a large town congregation. [2]
Closure and surviving fabric
Local information recorded by the architectural survey dates the church’s closure to 1972 and deconsecration to 1978. When surveyed in 2007, its interior retained a boarded ceiling, raised timber platform and remains of pews and pulpit. The inventory also described the nearby larger houses, including Tievemore House, as ruinous, recording a changed landscape around the former chapel. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Civil parish
- Templecarn
- Within
- Grousehall
- Within
- Tievemore
- Coordinates
- 54.59592, -7.75243 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413096 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tievemore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cashelenny Church of Ireland Church, NIAH 40910201 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.