Tacumshane () is a small village in the southeast of County Wexford,

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. It is located 15 km south of Wexford town.

Name

The official name of the village is Tacumshane. In

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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

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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

The windmill was built in 1846 by Nicolas Moran and was used until 1936, making it the last windmill in the Republic 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".

Tacumshin Lake

Tacumshin Lake or Lough as its locally known is 1100 acres in size and is designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) by the National Parks and Wildlife Services. Closed naturally since 1972, with a barrier of dune. A tidal system know locally as "the tunnel" was constructed in the 1970s making the Lough tidal. A new system was built in the 1990s. Tachumshin Lake is a favourite with bird watchers. It attracts some rare American

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s in Autumn, as well as internationally important concentrations of Bewick's swans,

Brent geese The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus '' Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after ...

wigeon The wigeons or widgeons are a group of birds, dabbling ducks currently classified in the genus ''Mareca'' along with two other species. There are three extant species of wigeon, in addition to one recently extinct species. Biology There are ...

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golden plover '' Pluvialis '' is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds comprising four species that breed in the temperate or Arctic Northern Hemisphere. In breeding plumage, they all have largely black underparts, and golden or silvery upperparts. The ...

and

lapwing Lapwings (subfamily Vanellinae) are any of various ground-nesting birds (family Charadriidae) akin to plovers and dotterels. They range from in length, and are noted for their slow, irregular wingbeats in flight and a shrill, wailing cry. A gro ...

Transport

Bus Éireann route 378 serves Tacumshane on Fridays only and provides a link to and from

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. Its terminus is at

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People

John Barry (naval officer) John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) was an Irish-American officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. He has been credited as "The Father of the American Navy" (and ...

He is often credited as "The Father of the American Navy". Born in a rented thatched farmstead, in the then 152 acre

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of Ballysampson, he would emigrate in the 1760s, and be appointed a Captain in the Continental Navy on 7 December 1775. *

John Meyler John Meyler (born 1956) is an Irish List of hurling managers, hurling manager and former selector, association footballer, Gaelic footballer and Hurling, hurler who is currently the manager of the Kilmoyley GAA, Kilmoyley senior hurling team. He ...

(born 1956 in Tacumshane, County Wexford) 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 served as manager of Kerry, Wexford and Cork senior inter-county teams from 1990s through to today.

References

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External links

Tacumshane in from Sanuel Lewis's 1837 ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''

A look inside the Tacumshane Windmill on Meyler's Millhouse Bar and Restaurant website
Towns and villages in County Wexford