Tomhaggard

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomhaggard, from 65 m² to 521,599 m² (52.16 ha, 128.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Tomhaggard in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  1. Permission for demolition of existing shed and erection of an office

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251468

• 24 Oct 2025N/a

  1. Permission for demolition of existing shed and erection of an office

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251375

• 28 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a front porch, all associated site works

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251077

• 30 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed renovation of a derelict dwelling, demolition of

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241050

• 19 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for the proposed renovation of a derelict dwelling and for the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240988

• 11 Dec 2023N/a

  Permission for 1. demolition of existing shed and erection of an office

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231483

• 2 Aug 2023Refused

  Permission for retention of a reinforced concrete boundary/retaining wall.

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230900

• 19 Apr 2023Refused

  Permission for (1) demolition of existing shed and erection of an office

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230408

• 19 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed replacement of a current single vehicular entrance

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221108

• 31 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a garage/ shed with associated site works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200865

• 1 Jul 2020N/a

  Permission to erect Storage Shed/ Workshop to the rear of my dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200709

• 15 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190336

• 21 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF 2 NO. STABLE BLOCK BUILDINGS, AN INDOOR

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180332

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Tacumshin Lake SAC 000709
• Special Protection Area: Tacumshin Lake SPA 004092
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tacumshin Lake 000709

Recorded monuments

• WX047-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, It is situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of an enclosure defined by an internal bank feature with an external fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDJ 14; BGF 75; BOD 68). The bank forms a subcircular feature but the fosse appears to be subrectangular (ext. dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 35m to c. 45m N-S). It is visible as a low-relief, but indistinct, feature on the ground in a ploughed field. Despite the unusual external form this is probably a ringfort. The abpve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 October, 2013

• WX047-049 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located on a gentle N-facing slope and on the E side of a SW-NE street in the village of Tomhaggard. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern on the 25th of July had been discontinued since c. 1820 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 200), but the well is still maintained. The well is a circular feature (diam. c. 0.6m) covered with a lintel that has an opening (Wth 0.55m; H 0./4m) at SE that leads to a stone-lined channel (Wth 0.5m; L 31m) before the stream runs underground to re-emerge into a pond in the valley bottom c. 20m to the E. From there it joins the stream from St. Anne’s Well (WX047-051----) that is c. 50m E of St. James’s Well. St. James’ well is covered by a D-shaped masonry cairn (dims c. 1.2m x c. 0.8m; H 0.55-0.9m) surmounted by a cross and there is a niche for a statue over the opening to the well. The dedication is to St. James of Compostela in NW Spain, where it is thought that the remains of St. James the Greater, one of the Apostles, were translated. St. James the apostle was close to Christ, and according to the Gospels witnessed many of His miracles, and was present at the Transfiguration, the Last Supper, and in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was martyred in Jerusalem in 43 AD. The belief that the remains of St. James were in Spain led to their discovery in the early 9th century when they were installed at Compostela in the NW corner of the country. This led to the development of a pilgrimage to his shrine that continues to this day. In Spanish it is called ‘Camino’, and was important politically in rallying support to the Christian kingdoms of northern Spain against the Muslim occupation of much of the Iberian Peninsula. (Butler (1883, 105) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date ofupload: 21 Octiber, 2013

• WX047-050001 Mass-house
  Description

  Located on a bluff overlooking a small W-E valley. Tomhaggard is not listed in a survey of Catholic priests in Ferns diocese in 1731 (Anon. 1915, 166-9), but Jasper Devereux was registered as the pastor of Mayglass and Tomhaggard in 1703 (Grattan Flood 1915, 68). The structure is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but it is not named. This is a stone walled thatched structure (ext. dims. 7.1m NW-SE; 5.5m NE-SW; int. dims 5.9m NW-SE; 3.7m NE-SW) built against the inner face of the SE wall of the tower house (WX047-050002-), probably at the first floor level. A window embrasure has been blocked at the bottom creating an altar shelf (Wth 1.73m; H 1.14m; D 0.53m). There is no evidence of an enclosure or burial associated with it, but there is a D-shaped stone (dims 0.5m x 0.28m) over the doorway carved with four curves on its rounded edge and a T-shaped incision. St James' Well (WX047-049----) is c. 35m to the W and St Anne's Well (WX047-051----) is c. 10m to the N at the base of the bluff. A small excavation (03E0646) connected with the underpinning of a buttress on the N side of the mass-house failed to produce any related material (Hayden 2006). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 October, 2013

• WX047-050002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on a bluff overlooking a small W-E valley. The manor of Tildavin (Tillaghdovan) was held by the Hore, Rede, and St. John families in the 13th and 14th century by half a knight’s fee from the Bigod estate, and the name of the manor and parish became Tomhaggard over time (Brooks 1950, 35-6). References to a castle at Tomhaggard date from the 17th century when ‘a large ruinous stonework' was the property of the William Rossiter of Bargy (WX047047----) (Simington 1953, 128; Jeffrey 1979, 89). Only the SE wall (L 7.5m; ext. H 6.5m) survives with a garderobe chamber (L 1.5m; Wth 0.53m; H 1.9m) at the N end which is entered through a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.52m; H 1.64m). This was probably at the second floor level of the castle and an embrasure of the tower house in the same wall and at the same level was utilised as an altar-shelf in the mass-house. The ground on the NW side of the wall has been built up to the second floor and is flush with the NE-SW street c. 35m to the W. The mass-house (WX047-050001-) is built against the inner face of the castle wall, but the garderobe is outside the mass-house and regarded as a confessional. A small excavation (03E0646) connected with the underpinning of a buttress on the N side of the mass-house failed to produce any related material (Hayden 2006). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 October, 2103

• WX047-051 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located on the floor of a small W-E valley, at its S edge and at the base of the bluff on which the castle (WX047-050002-) and mass-house (WX047-050001-) are situated. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was kept on the 26th of July (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 200) and it is still held on that date. The bluff is faced with stone and the well faces NE. This is a D-shaped well (dims 0.75m x c. 0.5m) with a pointed opening (H c. 1.1m) of undressed stone. Above the opening is a pointed niche with a statue of St. Anne. Water enters the well from the S and an underground channel leads N where it meets the water from St. James’ Well (WX047-049----) and is led off to the SE through a small park. The parish church of Tomhaggard (WX047-052001-) is c. 55m to the NNE. St. Anne was the mother of Mary and was revered in the church as a paragon of virtue in marriage. She also had a special care for the education of young children. A church was dedicated to her in Constantinople by the Emperor Justinian I c. 550 AD, and when her remains were discovered they were moved there in 710 AD. From Constantinople her cult spread around the Christian West. (Butler 1883, 105)

• WX047-052001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a low E-W ridge. The parish church of Tomhaggard is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 25-30m N-S) defined by masonry walls. There is a small annexe (dims c. 25m N-S; c. 30m E-W) attached to the NE of the graveyard defined by earthen banks and hedges, which has become a burial ground for the remains of the unknown drowned recovered from the sea. The name is derived from Tuaim an tSagairt – the priest’s mound – or more probably from Tuaim Mosacra – the tomb of St. Moshagra of Saggart, an obscure saint connected with Glendalough whose pattern on March 3 was celebrated at Tomhaggard (Ó Riain 2011, 498-9). References to the church date from the early 13th century and probably earlier (Hore 1900-11, vol. 4, 311). Many churches had been granted by Hervey de Montmorency to Christchurch in Canterbury c. 1180, but in 1245 Canterbury assigned their rights in them, including Thamasre or Tamagre (Tomhaggard), to Tintern abbey (WX045-027001-) (ibid. vol. 3, 27-8, 32). However, in 1255 as they couldn’t agree Canterbury granted Tomhaggard to Geoffrey St. John, later Bishop of Ferns, whose family were probably already in possession (Brooks 1950, 36). In 1552 Balthazar Butler was rector (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 224). According to a visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop, in 1615 William Roche was Rector and Jacob Stafford was the vicar, and the church and chancel were in repair (ibid. vol. 6, 269). This is an undivided nave and chancel church (ext. dims 19.9m WNW-ESE; 6.45m NNE-SSW; int. dims 18.15m WNW-ESE; 4.85m NNE-SSW) with ivy-covered walls (Wth 1.05m; H 2.7m) surviving complete, apart from sections of the N wall. There is a blocked doorway, originally pointed according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 198-200), in the S wall but the N wall opposite this is destroyed. The S wall has a destroyed window about its centre and a pointed aumbry at the E end. The W wall has an ogee-headed window (Wth 0.28m; H 1m) with glazing-grooves in a double-splay embrasure. It has a linetelled inner embrasure (Wth 1.36m; H 1.95m) and a lintelled external embrasure (Wth 0.75m; H 1.25m), and the gable has a double bellcote at the apex. The N wall has a narrow window (Wth 0.22m; H 0.9m) in a damaged embrasure opposite the window in the S wall with a narrow, robbed window in a round-headed embrasure (Wth 1m; H 1.3m) to the E., neither surviving complete. There is a highly decorated shallow tomb-niche (Wth 2.15m; H 1.25m; D 0.3m) at the E end of the N wall that would serve as an Easter Sepulchre, and single corbels in the N and S walls 7m from the E end indicates the location of a rood screen to separate the nave from the chancel. The E wall has a three-light, cusped ogee-headed tracery window in an embrasure (Wth 2.05m; H 3.4m). St Anne's Well (WX047-051----) and St James' Well (WX047-049----) are c. 55m to the SW and c. 110m to the WSW respectively, and the mass-house (WX047-050001- and tower house (WX047-050002-) are c. 70m to the SSW. Archaeological testing (04E0840) in a D-shaped field (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 30m N-S) just N of the graveyard produced evidence of two large curving fosses centred on the church. The inner ditch (Wth 2.7-3.1m) was just N of the graveyard wall and the outer fosse (Wth 2.9-3.5m) was more curved and was just inside the curving field boundary. A wider fosse (Wth 7m) appeared in the most westerly trench. All the features produced medieval pottery, and the ditches can be interpreted as a multi-vallate ecclesiastical enclosure. (McLoughlin 2004; 2007) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 October, 2013 McLoughlin, C. 2004 Pre-planning archaeological assessment, Tomhaggard, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology.

• WX047-052002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a low E-W ridge. The parish church of Tomhaggard (WX047-052001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 25-30m N-S) defined by masonry walls. There is a small annexe (dims c. 25m N-S; c. 30m E-W) attached to the NE of the graveyard defined by earthen banks and hedges which has become a burial ground for the remains of the unknown drowned recovered from the sea. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 Octiber, 2013

• WX047-052003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Located just N of the graveyard of Tomhaggard parish church (WX047-052001-). Archaeological testing (04E0840) in a D-shaped field (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 30m N-S) produced evidence of two large curving fosses centred on the church. The inner ditch (Wth 2.7-3.1m) was just N of the graveyard wall and the outer fosse (Wth 2.9-3.5m) was more curved and was just inside the curving field boundary. A wider fosse (Wth 7m) appeared in the most westerly trench. All features produced medieval pottery, and the ditches can be interpreted as a multi-vallate ecclesiastical enclosure. (McLoughlin 2004; 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore

• WX047-065 Bridge
  Description

  William Rossiter of Bargy castle (WX047-047----) is described as from Bridge Bargy in the Civil Survey (1654-6) and a bridge is listed in the index (Simington 1953, 128, 163). The present bridge has a single-arch (Wth 1.54m; H 1.9m), but the stonework appears to be post-medieval in date and it cannot be confrimed that the earlier bridge is on this site. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2013

• WX047-158 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (04E0067) identified three small pits (diam. c. 0.2-0.5m), and a gully (Wth c. 1m; D 0.3m; exposed L c. 25m N-S) which produced a flint and has an entrance gap (Wth c. 9m). The archaeological features were preserved under the development (McLoughlin 2005). Tomhaggerd tower house (WX047-050002-) and mass-house (WX047-050001-) are c. 90m to the N. (McLoughlin 2004a, 2004b, 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 Octiber, 2013

• WX047-167 Mass-rock
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of an E-facing slope with a low lying basin extending to the E, and on the W side of a NNW-SSE, stone-faced field bank. Fr. Nicholas Meyler was murdered on Christmas morning 1653 while celebrating Mass (Grattan Flood 1915, 67), and Mass is celebrated every year at the location on Christmas morning to commemorate the event. The mass-rock, a small stone (dims c. 0.4m x c. 0.3m) with a decoration like a three-pointed leaf cut into one face was re-discovered at the location c. 1982 (Murphy 1983-4) and it is now installed beneath a limestone slab (dims 0.8m x 0.45m; T 3cm) on a shelf (H 0.48m) at the W side of the field bank and in a hollow (diam. c. 4m) of the dry field drain. (Murphy 1983-4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 Octiber, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1763–2008 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of lichen-spotted cut-limestone markers, ob. 1763-2008. Set in unkempt grounds on an elevated site with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having creeper- or ivy-covered shallow conical capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.

• Church/chapel, 1731–1813 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey single-cell thatched mass house, ----, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1813. "Restored", 2003. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat or wheat thatch roof on collared timber construction with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Part repointed coursed rubble stone battered walls with rubble stone battered buttresses. Square-headed door opening with rough hewn rubble stone lintel framing timber boarded door. Limewashed interior with timber kneelers. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site approached by flight of rough hewn rubble stone steps.

• Water pump, 1905–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1940. Now disused. Road fronted on grass verge.

• Tomhaggard House, farm house, 1665–1670 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1667, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on roughcast eaves. Roughcast battered walls. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions on step threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with shallow sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Set back from line of road on a slightly elevated site with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having truncated pyramidal capping supporting iron gate.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Tomhaggard, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tomhaggard.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Tomhaggard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Tomhaggard · Teach Moshagard

Area

930,752 m² (93.08 ha, 229.99 acres)

Civil parish

Tomhaggard, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Tomhaggard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygullick, Bargy, Crossscales, Grayrobin, Knocks, Lingstown Upper, Littlebridge, Littletown

Placenames

Tomhaggard on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.