Slade
Slade is a small village and townland in County Wexford, Ireland. The townland, which has an area of approximately 1 square kilometre, sits on the Hook Peninsula and had a population of 52 people as of the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland
- Also known as: “Slade, County Wexford”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slade Castle and St. Dubhán’s Church, Churchtown, Hook Peninsula.
Slade Castle
Ruins
Photo: Ianfhunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Slade Castle is a tower house and National Monument in County Wexford, Ireland. It is located in the village of Slade on the Hook Peninsula and primarily dates to the late 15th or early 16th century.
Hook Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Athena Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
The Hook Lighthouse is a building situated on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world and the second oldest operating lighthouse in the world, after the Tower of Hercules in Spain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hook Point and Creaden Head.
Hook Point
Locality
Photo: Dmgaerial, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hook Head, historically called Rindowan, is a headland in County Wexford, Ireland, on the east side of the estuary of The Three Sisters. It is part of the Hook peninsula and is adjacent to the historic townland of Loftus Hall.
Creaden Head
Locality
Photo: Nmwalsh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Creadan Head is a headland on a small peninsula on the west side of Waterford Harbour, about three miles upriver from Dunmore East, in County Waterford, Ireland. Creaden Head is situated 6 km northwest of Slade.
Dunmore East
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Dunmore East is a small village on the coast of County Waterford in southeast Ireland. Its Irish name Dún Mór means "big fort", and has been applied to innumerable hillocks where ancient people huddled in the wind and rain, so this one is specifically Dunmore East.
Slade
- Categories: townland, human settlement, and locality
- Location: County Wexford, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.13399° or 52° 8′ 2″ northLongitude
-6.91093° or 6° 54′ 39″ westOpen location code
9C4M43MQ+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5025411039OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2961452Wikidata ID
Q115593420
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Slade” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Slade (Wexford konderria)”
- Basque: “Slade”
- German: “Slade”
- Irish: “An Slaod, Contae Loch Garman”
- Irish: “An Slaod”
- Turkish: “Slade”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Slade”. Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.