placenamesTibohine
Tigh Baoithín
An English architectural partnership designed St Baoithín’s for Bishop Laurence Gillooly in 1858.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tigh Baoithín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tibohine · English · main form
Place & story
Gothic detail in local stone
St Baoithín’s Catholic Church was built in 1858 to designs by Weightman, Hadfield and Goldie. Its cruciform form has a four-bay nave, projecting side chapels and a bellcote above the entrance. Rock-faced limestone walls and stepped buttresses give the exterior its strongly textured appearance. [2]
Pointed windows have dressed limestone surrounds and stained glass, with a rose window at the chancel. The national architectural survey recorded an original altar, side altar, communion rails and timber gallery inside. A four-lobed opening in the boundary wall resembles one at the sacristy; the survey cautiously suggests reused material from an earlier church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Civil parish
- Tibohine
- Coordinates
- 53.87635, -8.50180 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414423 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tibohine. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Baoithín’s Catholic Church, Tibohine — record 31914001 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.