placenamesTouaghty
Tuath Aitheachta
The Mayo parish contains a house linked with successive generations of the Blake family.
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
- Tuath Aitheachta · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Touaghty · English · main form
Place & story
From leasehold to ownership
The Landed Estates Database places Towerhill in Touaghty parish, County Mayo. Its estate history records an early eighteenth-century lease of Clooneen, or Towerhill, held by Isidore Blake from his cousin Sir Walter Blake. Isidore’s son Maurice bought the fee simple from Sir Ulick Blake in 1753. Maurice’s son, also named Isidore, was the first family member to live in the house at Towerhill. The repeated name belongs to successive generations. [2]
The house and its occupants
The database dates the house to the late eighteenth century. At Griffith’s Valuation it was occupied by Valentine O’Conor Blake and valued at £60; this was a valuation, not a stated annual rent. Slater’s directory named Colonel Maurice Blake there in 1894. The database records Blake occupation continuing into the mid-twentieth century and describes the house as a ruin. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Touaghty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Blake (Towerhill & Bunowen), estate record488 · Landed Estates Database, University of Galway
- Towerhill, Mayo, property record404 · Landed Estates Database, University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.