placenamesTaughboyne
Teach Baoithín
Lewis recorded extensive quarrying alongside several different arrangements for education.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teach Baoithín · Irish · main form
- Taughboyne · English · main form
Place & story
Slate from the parish
Samuel Lewis described extensive slate quarries in Taughboyne parish in 1837, while noting that their slates were small and coarse. His account also records the Foyle as navigable by small boats to Saint Johnstown, where a fair took place on 25 November. [2]
Several forms of school support
About 200 children attended four supported schools: the parochial school, partly endowed by Colonel Robertson; a London Hibernian Society school; and two subscription schools. Lewis separately recorded nine private schools teaching approximately the same number, five Sunday schools and two recently erected schoolhouses funded by the Marquess of Abercorn. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Coordinates
- 54.91564, -7.49847
- Mapped area
- 66.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 814 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taughboyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Taughboyne, Donegal: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-12-12. How this page was prepared.