placenamesTomhaggard
Teach Moshagard
Tomhaggard’s surviving buildings and excavated ditches preserve traces of successive periods of worship.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Teach Moshagard · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tomhaggard · English · main form
Place & story
A small thatched mass house
Tomhaggard’s mass house is a compact, single-room building with thick fieldstone walls and a thatched roof. It continued in use until 1813, bridging the period between the older village church and its Catholic successor. A window recess was adapted to serve as an altar shelf. The thatch was restored in 2003 with assistance from the Heritage Council. [2]
Evidence beside the medieval church
An archaeological assessment in 2004 opened five trenches beside Tomhaggard’s medieval church. Ditches appeared in four trenches, with medieval pottery found in three. One east–west ditch exceeded seven metres in width and contained both local coarseware and imported pottery. Archaeologist Catherine McLoughlin interpreted these features as likely traces of the church enclosure’s northern boundary. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Bargy
- Civil parish
- Tomhaggard
- Within
- Tomhaggard
- Coordinates
- 52.21424, -6.49285 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413899 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tomhaggard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tomhaggard mass house, record 15704775 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- 2004:1828, Tomhaggard, licence 04E0840 · Catherine McLoughlin, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.