{{Update|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Taughboyne |native_name = {{Native name|ga|Teach Baoithín|paren=omit}} |settlement_type = Civil Parish |image_skyline = Taughboyne Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 646062.jpg |image_caption = Taughboyne Parish Church |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = left |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Ulster |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = County Donegal |established_title = |established_date = |leader_title1 = Dáil Éireann |leader_name1 = Donegal |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_total = |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = WET |utc_offset1 = +0 |timezone1_DST = IST (WEST) |utc_offset1_DST = -1 |coordinates = {{coord|54.959|-7.476|dim:100000_region:IE|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = <!-- {{iem4ibx|??????}} --> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Taughboyne''' ({{Irish place name|Teach Baoithín}} meaning "''house of Baithen''")<ref>{{cite web |title=Taughboyne |website=logainm.ie |url=https://www.logainm.ie/ga/814?s=Taughboyne}}</ref> is a civil parish, in County Donegal, Ireland.
Taughboyne is located {{convert|8|km|mi|abbr=on}} West-South-West from Derry, on the road to Raphoe; containing, with the village and ancient disfranchised borough of St Johnston, 6335 inhabitants (in 1837). St. Baithen, son of Brendan, a disciple and kinsman of St Columba, and his successor in the abbey of Hy, founded Tegbaothin in Tyrconnell: he flourished towards the close of the sixth century. The parish, according to the Ordnance survey, comprises an area of 15,773{{frac|3|4}} statute acres, including a large portion of bog: the land is chiefly arable, and of good quality. There are some extensive slate quarries, but the slates are small and of a coarse quality.
The River Foyle, which bounds the parish on the east, is navigable for small boats to St. Johnstown, where a fair is held on 25 Nov. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Raphoe, and in the patronage of the Marquess of Abercorn: the tithes amount to £1569. 4. 7{{frac|1|2}}.; and the glebe, comprising {{convert|317|acre|km2}}, is valued at £260. 6. 5{{frac|1|2}}. per annum (in c.1837). The glebe-house was originally built in 1785, at a cost of £1313 British, and subsequently improved at an expense of £1399 by the then incumbent. The church was erected in 1626; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £268 for its repair. In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Lagan, or Raymochy; the chapel was built about 1787. In the parochial school partly supported by an endowment of Col. Robertson, a school under the London Hibernian Society, and two schools supported by subscription, about 200 children are educated; there are also nine private schools, in which are about the same number of children, and five Sunday schools: two school-houses were erected by the Marquess of Abercorn around 1830. There is a dispensary for the poor.
==References== {{reflist}} *[https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/T/Taughboyne-Raphoe-Donegal.php A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland] By Samuel Lewis, 1837 (public domain)
==External links== *[http://www.geograph.ie/photo/646062 Taughboyne Parish Church]
Category:Civil parishes of County Donegal