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County Wexford

Hook Point

Hook Head, historically called Rindowan, is a headland in , , 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 .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: headland in County Wexford, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Hook Head”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hook Lighthouse and St. Dubhán’s Church, Churchtown, Hook Peninsula.

Lighthouse
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The is a building situated on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in , in Ireland. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world and the second oldest operating lighthouse in the world, after the in Spain.

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Ruins
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is a tower house and National Monument in , . It is located in the village of on the Hook Peninsula and primarily dates to the late 15th or early 16th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Slade and Dunmore East.

Village
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is a small village and townland in , 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.

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is a small village on the coast of 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 .

Locality
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Creadan Head is a headland on a small peninsula on the west side of , about three miles upriver from , in , Ireland. is situated 6 km north of Hook Point.

Hook Point

Latitude
52.12321° or 52° 7′ 24″ north
Longitude
-6.93051° or 6° 55′ 50″ west
Open location code
9C4M43F9+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768222540
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
2963740
Wiki­data ID
Q1459722
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Hook Point” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Hook lurmuturra”
  • Breton: “Rinn Duáin”
  • Cebuano: “Hook Head”
  • Dutch: “Hook Head”
  • Estonian: “Hook Head”
  • French: “Hook Head”
  • German: “Hook Head”
  • German: “Hook Peninsula”
  • Irish: “Rinn Duáin”
  • Italian: “Hook Head”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hook Head”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hook Head”
  • Norwegian: “Hook Head”
  • Spanish: “Cabo de Hook”
  • Spanish: “Hook Head”
  • Swedish: “Hook Head”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hook Lighthouse and Lime Kiln.

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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 “Hook Point”. Photo: Dmgaerial, CC BY-SA 4.0.