placenamesConvoy
Conmhaigh
Convoy’s wider built history includes estate service buildings and successive phases of church architecture.
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
- Conmhaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Convoy · English · main form
Place & story
Convoy House and its working buildings
Convoy House in Greenfield was built around 1806–07 for Robert Montgomery. The architectural inventory names George Taylor as its builder and possible designer, and Alexander Dick as a stonecutter. Shallow bows project at either end of the long front. Behind the house, an outbuilding retained remains of a horse-powered churning mill when surveyed. The house’s interior suffered fire damage in 1971, and it was re-roofed around 1990. [2]
Saint Ninian’s later chancel
Saint Ninian’s Church of Ireland church developed from a three-bay nave and western tower built in 1821–24. Its doorway bears an 1824 date plaque. A shallow chancel and adjoining vestry were added in 1901, introducing an elaborate east window with stone tracery and figurative stained glass. The inventory also records carved timber fittings and an exposed king-post roof. The building preserves successive investments rather than a single unchanged early-nineteenth-century design. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Coordinates
- 54.86725, -7.76555
- Mapped area
- 81.36 km²
- Logainm ID
- 819 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Convoy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- ConvoyHouse,NIAH40832001 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- SaintNiniansChurch,NIAH40832011 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-08-20. How this page was prepared.