placenamesTaney
Teach Naithí
The parish’s nineteenth-century church later became home to a historic peal rescued from Dublin’s city centre.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teach Naithí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Taney · English · main form
Place & story
A larger church and another use for the old one
Christ Church opened for worship in 1818. Lewis records a £4,300 Board of First Fruits loan towards the building and a further £256 grant for interior renovation in 1835. His description identifies a cruciform church with a square battlemented tower. The older church remained in use for funeral services, with another part serving as the parish school. The new building therefore changed the distribution of activities between two church sites. [2] [3]
Ringing in the millennium
The bells now at Christ Church came from Saint George’s Church in Dublin. Taney’s bell ringers trace their presentation to Francis and Anne Johnston in 1828. After Saint George’s closed in 1990, the bells went into storage. A committee formed in 1997 pursued their installation at Taney, followed by a fundraising appeal in May 1999. They rang at Christ Church on 31 December 1999 as a large crowd gathered to welcome the year 2000. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Taney: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
- History of the bells and Christ Church · Taney Bell Ringers
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.