These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
Teach Sagard· Irish · main form · validated name
Saggart· English · main form
Place & story
A village on the edge of the Pale
After the Anglo-Norman conquest, Saggart belonged to the Crown alongside Newcastle Lyons, Esker and Crumlin. Its manor supplied rents, milling income and court fees. Francis Elrington Ball records Richard Aylmer serving as its portreeve in 1432: the village had an identifiable civic officer as well as royal landlords. Its position near the mountains also exposed it to repeated fighting, including the burning of the village by forces associated with Viscount Baltinglas in 1580.[2]
The old churchyard
Saggart’s churchyard preserves evidence of an older religious settlement. The County Dublin Urban Archaeology Survey describes early Christian monuments and the grass-covered foundations of the medieval church, partly overlain by a later mausoleum. The church was recorded in repair in 1615 but had fallen by 1630. The association with St Mosacra belongs to the site’s early ecclesiastical tradition; the surviving stones and foundations give that long history a visible setting.[3]
People & connections
Paper and the people who made it
Swift Brook Paper Mill became a major local employer after its establishment in the eighteenth century. South Dublin Libraries records its reputation for paper used in banknotes and stamps, alongside the recollections of worker Kit Brady. Brady joined the mill in 1947; his father Peter was a foreman and his brother worked on the boilers. Their account follows the practical work behind the finished sheets, from moving ingredients to tending machinery. It gives Saggart’s industrial past a family scale as well as an architectural one.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Saggart — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Saggart, South Dublin — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
868people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Saggart, South Dublin — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Saggart, South Dublin — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
550people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Saggart, South Dublin — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Saggart, Dublin — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Saggart, South Dublin
Published census settlement populations
3,133people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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