Tignall is a town in Wilkes County, Georgia, United States.

[4] It was named for Tignall Livingston Moss, a lieutenant in the Confederate army who was killed in battle in 1862.

[6] The town lies along Georgia State Route 17 south of Elberton and north of Washington, and a few miles west of the Georgia-South Carolina state line.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2), all land.

As of the census[2] of 2010, there were 615 people, 279 households, and 179 families residing in the town.