placenamesTaghboy
Teach Baoith
University of Galway research locates Claremont in the parish and distinguishes the house from wider landholdings.
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
- Teach Baoith · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Taghboy · English · main form
Place & story
A home at Ballyforan
Claremont in Ballyforan townland, Taghboy parish, was the home of Gonville ffrench, a younger brother of the third Baron ffrench. His landholdings extended beyond the parish into counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon. The Landed Estates database distinguishes this local residence from the family’s dispersed property. [2]
Property advertised for sale
In 1851 and 1852, Gonville ffrench’s assignee Henry Lyons advertised estates in Mayo and Roscommon, each amounting to just over a thousand acres. Those county estates were larger holdings than the Claremont property advertised in November 1885 with 181 acres. The notices record offerings for sale; they do not establish that every advertised parcel changed hands then. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Coordinates
- 53.47424, -8.23221
- Mapped area
- 56.95 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2097 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taghboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- ffrench (Claremont), Landed Estates estate 512 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.