[3] In December 1295 he took office as justiciar,[6] and organised a two-year truce between the feuding Burkes and Fitzgeralds (Geraldines).
[8] In February 1308, under orders from the new king Edward II, Wogan suppressed the Knights Templars in Ireland.
[10][11] In June 1308 Wogan's forces were defeated by the O'Tooles and O'Byrnes, who were harrying The Pale from the Wicklow Mountains.
[6] From September 1308 to May 1309 Piers Gaveston was in Ireland as "king's lieutenant", a new position outranking the justiciar, and he had more success against the Gaels.
There appear to have been at least five sons, William, Thomas, John ( a judge of the Irish Justiciar's Court), Bartholomew and Walter, (Escheator of Ireland), and two daughters, Joan and Eleanor.