Toom

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toom, from 3,431 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres) to 221,605 m² (22.16 ha, 54.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Toom 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.

• 7 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE DEPOSITION OF SURPL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180267

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 Toom.

Recorded monuments

• WX020-098 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Toom7 (Hardy et al. 2010, 77). It is situated on a fairly level landscape. It was excavated (E4285) by C. Hardy as two pits (dims 0.7m x 0.5m; D 0.24m: 1.54m x 1.14m: D 0.25m) and what may be a tree-bole (3.32m x 2.13m; D 0.46m), all within a small area (dims c. 10m x c. 6m) and all containing fills with flecks of charcoal. A sample from the larger pit produced a C14 date of Cal BC 2196-1985, and the only artefact recovered was a piece of worked quartz from the same context. The pits and post-holes (WX020-099----) are c. 90m to the SW. (Hull 2011; Hardy 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 28 November, 2013

• WX020-099 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Toom 6 (Hardy et al. 2010, 76-7). It is situated on a slightly undulating landscape. Excavation (E4280) of an extensive area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) by Y. Whitty recorded twelve pits, seven post-holes and an E-W drain (Wth 0.45m; D 0.4m; L 60m plus). Six small pits (dims 0.44m x 0.36m; D 0.1m to 0.95m x 0.65m; D 0.16m) and five larger pits (dims 1.4m x 1.37m; D 0.48m to 3m x 0.95m; D 0.38m) were concentrated in the NW corner of the excavated area, but no pattern was discernible, apart from three post-holes in a line (L 3m). Almost all the artefacts are from the topsoil, and are medieval and post-medieval in character. The pits (WX020-098----) are c. 90m to the NE and the pits and post-holes (WX020-100----) are c. 70m to the SSW. (Hardy 2012; Whitty 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

• WX020-100 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Toom 5 (Hardy et al. 2010, 75-6). It is situated on a slightly undulating landscape. Excavation (E4282) of an extensive area (dims 45m E-W; 40m N-S) by M. McNamara recorded a concentrated subrectangular area (dims c. 11m E-W; c. 9m N-S) where all but three of the 104 stake-holes were concentrated, together with 12 of the 17 post-holes. No pattern was discernible apart from a concentration of the stake-holes at the edges of an oval area (dims c. 11.5m E-W; c. 7.5m N-S), which may have formed a structure. A sample from a post-hole produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 2462-2210. A second phase is probably represented by four pits. Two of the pits (dims 1.55m x 1m; D 0.45m: 0.79m x 0.7m;D 0.29m) were located c. 14m to the NNW of the stake-hole area, and two others were located 7m (dims 0.48m x 0.37m; D 0.04m) and 11m (dims 0.85m x 0.85m; D 0.55m) to the WSW of the same focus. A sample from the last produce a C14 date of Cal BC 39 to Cal AD 80. The pits and post-holes (WX020-099----) are c. 70m to the NNE and the hearth (WX020-101----) is c. 140m to the SSW. (McNamara and Ruttle 2012; McNamara 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

• WX020-101 Hearth
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Toom 4 (Hardy et al. 2010, 75). It is situated towards the top of a slight S-facing slope. Excavation (E4339) by L. Barker recorded a single hearth (dims 0.88m x 0.8m; T 0.24m) with a concave base containing two fills of sandy clay with charcoal that are best interpreted as a hearth. No artefacts were recovered and no date can be attributed to it. The pits and post-holes (WX020-100----) are c. 140m to the NNE. (Mulcahy and McNamara 2012; Barker 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

• WX020-102 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Toom 3 (Hardy et al. 2010, 74-5). It is situated on a slight S-facing slope with a NE-SW section of a small meandering E-W stream c. 10m to the S. Excavation (E4281) by Y. Whitty recorded a C-shaped spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 6.3m x 4.5m; max. T 0.26m) open to the SE overlying an oval trough (dims 2m x 1.2m; D 0.4m). A short gully (Wth 0.9m; D 0.2m; L 1.4m) attached to the S of the trough decants into a palaeochannel. A collection of 26 stake-holes c. 1m N of the trough and gully form two rough E-W lines in a concentrated area (dims 1.8m x 1.7m), and c. 5m N of the trough were two pits (dims 1.2m x 0.45m; D 0.3m: 0.38m x 0.37m; D 0.23m) and a post-hole. The fulacht fia (WX020-103----) is c. 85m to the ENE and the unrelated hearth (WX020-107----) is c. 190m to the ESE in Ballydawmore townland. (McNamara 2011; Whitty 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

• WX020-103 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Toom 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 73). It is situated in the valley of a small E-W stream, which is c. 10m to the S. Full excavation (E4168) by M. McNamara revealed a NE trough (dims 1.35m x 1m; D 0.4m) truncated at NW by a pit (dims 2.75m x 1.79m; D 0.25m), and a truncated SW trough (dims 1.87m x 1.36m; D 0.65m). The troughs were c. 3m apart and both were beneath a burnt stone spread (dims 7.5m NE-SW; 3.6m NW-SE; max. T 0.31m) that was partially covered at E by silt from a N-S palaeochannel . The channel was partially excavated (E4167) as Toom 2 (McNamara 2013b) together with a hearth (dims 0.75m x 0.56m; D 0.3m) that was located c. 10m N of the fulacht fia, which the hearth probably served. The channel (exposed L 7.25m; exposed Wth 3m) was filled with a grey silt that had flecks of orange clay and small pebbles. The NE trough produced a C14 date of cal. BC 968-823, and from the SW trough the dates varied from cal. BC 1042-908. The fulacht fia (WX020-102----) is c. 85m to the WSW and the unrelated hearth (WX020-107----) is c. 130m to the SE in Ballydawmore townland. (McNamara 2012; 2013a; 2013b) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2981 (ZIP).

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 Toom with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Toom · Tuaim na Mac Tíre

Area

619,467 m² (61.95 ha, 153.07 acres)

Civil parish

Clone, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Tinnacross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinnacross electoral division: 1,037 people in 350 households; 86% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydawmore, Ballynabarny, Crane, Garryphelim, Solsborough

Placenames

Toom 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.