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Enniscorthy

Enniscorthy is a town in , with a population in 2022 of 12,000. Standing on the River Slaney, it's best known as the redoubt of the rebels of 1798: their headquarters and last stand were on Vinegar Hill to the east of town.
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  • Type: Town with 12,300 residents
  • Description: town in County Wexford, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Inis Corthaidh” and “Inis Córthaidh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Enniscorthy railway station and Enniscorthy Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station in , . It is in the centre of the town of Enniscorthy.

Museum
Photo: Przsak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated in Enniscorthy, , . Construction on the castle commenced in the late 1190s and was first occupied by its Norman owners in 1203 A.D. on the site of a previous wooden castle they had erected some years earlier.

Church
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
St. Aidan's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns. It is located in Enniscorthy, , in . The saint to whom the cathedral is dedicated is Máedóc of Ferns, also known as Áedan or Aidan, who died in 626, and not to be confused with St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monageer.

Village
, or Monagear, is a small village situated in the centre of , in . It is located a few kilometres roughly northeast of Enniscorthy town. is situated 7 km northeast of Enniscorthy.

Enniscorthy

Latitude
52.5011° or 52° 30′ 4″ north
Longitude
-6.5675° or 6° 34′ 3″ west
Population
12,300
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE ENN
Open location code
9C4MGC2M+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52256336
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2964403
Wiki­data ID
Q987759
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Enniscorthy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إنيسكورثي”
  • Armenian: “Էնիսքորթի”
  • Asturian: “Enniscorthy”
  • Asturian: “Inis Córthaidh”
  • Basque: “Enniscorthy”
  • Breton: “Inis Córthaidh”
  • Bulgarian: “Енискорти”
  • Bulgarian: “Енискърди”
  • Catalan: “Enniscorthy”
  • Cebuano: “Enniscorthy”
  • Chinese: “恩尼斯科西”
  • Danish: “Enniscorthy”
  • Dutch: “Enniscorthy”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انيسكورثى”
  • French: “Enniscorthy”
  • Galician: “Enniscorthy - Inis Córthaidh”
  • Galician: “Enniscorthy”
  • Georgian: “ენისკორტი”
  • German: “Enniscorthy”
  • Hebrew: “אניסקורתי”
  • Indonesian: “Enniscorthy”
  • Indonesian: “Inis Corthaidh”
  • Indonesian: “Inis Córthaidh”
  • Irish: “Inis Córthaidh”
  • Italian: “Enniscorthy”
  • Japanese: “エニスコーシー”
  • Lithuanian: “Eniskortis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Enniscorthy”
  • Norwegian: “Enniscorthy”
  • Polish: “Enniscorthy”
  • Portuguese: “Enniscorthy”
  • Russian: “Эннискорти”
  • Serbian: “Eniskorti”
  • Serbian: “Enniscorthy”
  • Serbian: “Енискорти”
  • Silesian: “Enniscorthy”
  • Spanish: “Enniscorthy”
  • Swedish: “Enniscorthy”
  • Ukrainian: “Енніскорті”
  • Welsh: “Enniscorthy”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Enniscorthy”. Photo: Shantrika, CC BY-SA 2.5.