Siginshaggard

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Siginshaggard, from 671 m² to 178,948 m² (17.89 ha, 44.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Siginshaggard 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.

• 9 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a domestic shed to side of existing dwelling hous

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210909

• 26 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of an existing uninhabitable dwelling and outbuild

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210442

• 11 Dec 2020Refused

  Permission for retention and completion of partly built domestic shed to side of

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201531

• 17 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CAR

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191672

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Siginshaggard.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-009 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References to the Siggins family at Sigginshaggard date from mid-16th century (Jeffrey 1979, 128) and references to the castle date only from 1641, when the Civil Survey (1654-6) records that the ruined castle and 300 acres at Sigginshaggard in Custuffe (Coolstuffe) parish was the inheritance of Philip Siggins (Simington 1953, 99), but the tower house probably dates to mid 16th century. It is located on a slight W-facing slope. This is a rectangular tower (ext. dims. 6.6m NW-SE; 6.1m NE-SW) of five floors with battered walls, dressed quoins and a base-batter, surviving almost to the wall walk (H c. 11m). A pointed doorway (Wth 0.98m; H 2..15m) of dressed granite is at the S end of the SW wall. It is protected by a yett and machicolation on the parapet, while a possible murder hole, operated from an ante-chamber of the first floor, is now destroyed. The lobby (destroyed) gave access to the ground floor (int. dims 4.7m NW-SE; 2.95m NE-SW) which has double-splayed loops in embrasures in each wall except the SW, and ten long, narrow gun-loops or spy-holes penetrate the walls to the outside. A mural stairs in the SW wall gives access through a destroyed doorway at the W end of the SW wall to the first floor under the NW-SE vault with wicker-centring, which has rectangular windows in the NW and SE walls, an antechamber with two gun-loops over main entrance, and three gun-loops at the centre of the NE wall. The floor was supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls. A newel stairs at the W angle, with two slit windows and two gun-loops leads to the second floor (int. dims 4.93m NW-SE: 4.35m NE-SW) over the vault which has a fireplace in the NE wall, with a small window to its N and a slit window to the S, which is in a destroyed garderobe at the E angle. There is a small robbed window on each of the other walls and a total of five gun-loops. The newel stairs (now destroyed) continue at the W angle to the third storey, the floor of which was supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls. The doorway is destroyed and there are small windows in the NW, NE and SE walls with a single gun-loop in the NE and SW walls. The fourth storey has a destroyed doorway from the newel stairs at the W angle, and the floor was supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls. There is an embrasure in each wall, those on the NW and SE walls have slit-windows while the others have single gun-loops. The battlements are destroyed. The tower house stands at the E corner of a square grass-covered enclosure or bawn (dims. 28m x 28m) defined by a slight bank and outer fosse (Wth c. 9m). 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: 17 July 2007

• WX041-009001 Bawn
  Description

  Located on a slight W-facing slope. The tower house (WX041-009----) stands at the E corner of a square grass-covered enclosure or bawn (dims. 28m x 28m) defined by a slight bank and outer fosse (Wth c. 9m). Cmpiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Siginshaggard.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Siginshaggard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Siginshaggard · Agard an tSigínigh

Area

1,014,453 m² (101.45 ha, 250.68 acres)

Civil parish

Coolstuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmon electoral division: 1,201 people in 444 households; 59% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughfad, Ballyhust, Coolstuff, Furlongstown, Garradreen, Growtown Lower, Harveystown, Knockbroad, Yolegrew

Placenames

Siginshaggard 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.