The Big Bay
The Big Bay is a bay in County Wexford, Leinster.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hook Lighthouse and Slade Castle.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunmore East and Fethard-on-Sea.
Dunmore East
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Fethard-on-Sea
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fethard-on-Sea is a village on the coast of County Wexford in Ireland. With a population in 2016 of 311, it's the largest of the villages on Hook Peninsula, so these are all described here. They include Saltmines, Duncannon and Ballyhack.
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.
The Big Bay
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: County Wexford, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.1263° or 52° 7′ 35″ northLongitude
-6.9301° or 6° 55′ 49″ westOpen location code
9C4M43G9+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 10013447979OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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