Tacumshane
| Tacumshane Irish: Teach Coimseáin | |
| County Wexford | |
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.jpg) Tacumshane Windmill | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | T072076 |
| Location: | 52°12’25"N, 6°24’36"W |
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Tacumshane is a small village in the south-east of County Wexford. It is located 15 km south of Wexford town.
Name
The name of the village is from the Irish Teach Coimseáin (House of Seán).[1] The village's name is often written too as "Tacumshin", with an 'i', which is indeed the standard spellling for the like-named townland, and local lake.
About two miles away is another townland, named Churchtown, which was once called 'Tacumshane': at Churchtown stood Tacumshane Castle, until it was demolished in 1984 by a local farmer. The village of Tacumshane is in the townland named 'Fence'.
Tacumshane Windmill
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
Tacumshin Lake is 1,100 acres in size. It is designated a 'Special Protection Area' 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]
Outside links
- Tacumshane in from Sanuel Lewis's 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
- History of Windmills in Wexford
- A look inside the Tacumshane Windmill on Meyler's Millhouse Bar and Restaurant
References
- ↑ Teach Coimseáin / Tacumshin: Placenames Database of Ireland
- ↑ "Tacumshane Windmill". http://www.goireland.com/wexford/tacumshane-windmill-attraction-windmills-id12366.htm.
- ↑ id=a098bb9afd314c0897703b17b4a8f1cb-18a40c83b2b-layer-8:1224 "NPWS Designations Viewer". https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/edf34d92e28040fd87d3d14f55d8d95f?data id=a098bb9afd314c0897703b17b4a8f1cb-18a40c83b2b-layer-8:1224.
- ↑ "Tacumshin Lake Lagoon Bird Watching". http://www.goireland.com/wexford/tacumshin-lake-lagoon-attraction-bird-watching-id12424.htm.