Tacumshane
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Tacumshane
Teach Coimseáin | |
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Village | |
.jpg) Tacumshane Windmill | |
  Tacumshane Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°12′25″N 6°24′36″W / 52.207°N 6.41°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Wexford |
| Elevation | 24 m (79 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | T072076 |
Tacumshane (Irish: Teach Coimseáin)[1] is a small village in the southeast of County Wexford, Ireland. It is located 15 km south of Wexford town.
Name[edit]
The official name of the village is Tacumshane. In Irish it is called Teach Coimseáin (House of Seán). The name of the village is often misspelled as "Tacumshin" as opposed to "Tacumshane". The lake and townland is spelled "Tacumshin", while the village and parish are spelled "Tacumshane". About two miles away is the townsland of Churchtown which was once called Tacumshane. It is where Tacumshane castle stood until it was demolished in 1984 by a local farmer. The Fence is the townsland located in the village of Tacumshane today.
Tacumshane Windmill[edit]
The windmill was built in 1846 by Nicolas Moran and was used until 1936, making it the last windmill in the Ireland to work commercially. It was renovated in the 1950s. It is the oldest working windmill in Ireland. Access is managed via the nearby pub, "The Millhouse Bar".[2]
Lake[edit]
Tacumshin Lake is 1100 acres in size. It is designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) and a Special Area of Conservation by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.[3] Cut off from sea since 1972 by a barrier of dune, a tidal system know locally as "the tunnel" was constructed in the 1970s making the lake tidal. A new system was built in the 1990s. Tachumshin Lake is a favourite with bird watchers. It attracts some rare American waders in Autumn, as well as internationally important concentrations of Bewick's swans, Brent geese, wigeon, oystercatchers, golden plover and lapwing.[4]
Transport[edit]
Bus Éireann route 378 serves Tacumshane on Fridays only and provides a link to and from Wexford.[5] Its terminus is at Wexford railway station.
People[edit]
- John Barry (1745–1803), is sometimes credited as the "Father of the American Navy". Born in a rented thatched farmstead, in the townland of Ballysampson,[6][7] he emigrated in the 1760s and was appointed a captain in the Continental Navy in December 1775.
- John Meyler (born 1956 in Tacumshane) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local clubs Our Lady's Island and St. Finbarr's and with the Wexford and Cork senior inter-county teams from 1973 until 1987. Meyler later managed several inter-county teams.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Teach Coimseáin/Tacumshin". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Tacumshane Windmill". www.goireland.com.
- ^ "NPWS Designations Viewer". NPWS Designations Viewer. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "Tacumshin Lake Lagoon Bird Watching". www.goireland.com. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011.
- ^ "Timetable - Route 378" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
- ^ "Ballysampson, County Wexford". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ Congress, United States (1967). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office.