placenamesTaghmon
Teach Munna
Trade in the parish centre adjusted when through traffic took a different route.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teach Munna · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Taghmon · English · main form
Place & story
A change in the trading route
Samuel Lewis attributed much of Taghmon’s earlier trade to its position on a public thoroughfare. By 1837 traffic had been diverted onto the new road between Wexford and New Ross. He reported that the town then depended chiefly on its fairs, with at least twenty-three held annually. This was a change in the centre’s commercial setting, rather than the disappearance of local trading. [2]
Salt butter and farm produce
A seasonal market dealt specifically in salt butter, meeting on Tuesdays and Fridays. Beyond the town, Lewis described a largely cultivated parish with little waste ground, and limestone quarried at Poulmarle for both building and agricultural use. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Barony
- Bargy
- Coordinates
- 52.31306, -6.64595
- Mapped area
- 40.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2627 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taghmon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Taghmon: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.