Teach (Irish term)
Introduction '''Teach''' is an Irish language term.The following definition of the term has been given by Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig''The word ''teach'', 'a house', is the only widely attested native Irish element to designate a church of monastic site in early placenames. the term is found in placenames of all periods but, generally speaking, the meaning '(monastic) church'. The late Deirdre Flanagan has suggested that the deployment of ''teach'' as an ecclesiastical placename element is a continuation of the pagan use of the term to denote sacred or mythological sites. There is sufficient evidence available to show that some of the eccleiastical sitename of Ireland containing the element ''teach'' is of pre-Christian origin. ''He further notes that along with the words Cíll and Díseart it can be loosely translated as church. Teach is purely Gaelic, while the other two are derived from Latin.It is now used in Ireland to denote a secular dwelling, often a family house. An alternative form is ''tígh''.
See also * Tígh* Tynagh* Conainne
References * ''The Christian impact on early Ireland;placename evidence'', Deirdre Flannagan in ''Irland und Europa'', ed. P Ni Cathain and Michael Richter, Stuttgart, 1984, pp. 25–51. * ''Early Ecclesiastical Settlement Names of County Galway'', Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, in "Galway:History and Society - Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County", pp. 805–807, Dublin, 1996..