Wexford Harbour

Wexford Harbour in , is the natural harbour at the mouth of the . In earlier times, the area occupied by the harbour was considerably larger than it is today, up to ten miles wide at its widest point, with large mud flats on both sides.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Wexford O’Hanrahan and National Opera House.

Railway station
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Wexford railway station is a railway station located in Wexford Town in , Ireland.

Theater building
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The , formerly the Wexford Opera House, is a theatre in , Ireland. It was officially opened on 5 September 2008 in a ceremony with the Taoiseach Brian Cowen, followed by a live broadcast of RTÉ's The Late Late Show from the O'Reilly Theatre.

Arts center
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, formerly known as Wexford Town Hall and before that Wexford Cornmarket, is a former municipal building in John's Gate Street, , , Ireland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wexford and Rosslare.

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is the county town of , on the southeast corner of . The bay that forms its harbour has for centuries drawn incomers, and it was at the centre of the rebellion of 1798. In 2022 it had a population of 21,500.

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is in in south-east Ireland, to the south of city. It's two distinct towns, 8 km apart by road. Europort or Harbour developed from 1906 with the arrival of the railway, when it was obvious that Wexford harbour would become silted up.

Village
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is a small town in , , around 5 km north of . It is just north of , on the R741 road. is a rapidly expanding suburb of Wexford Town: its population has almost tripled in 20 years, increasing from 783 in 1996 to a population of 1,840 in 2016.

Wexford Harbour

Latitude
52.3309° or 52° 19′ 51″ north
Longitude
-6.4065° or 6° 24′ 24″ west
Open location code
9C4M8HJV+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1111615382
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Wiki­data ID
Q1788926
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Wexford Harbour” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وكسفورد هاربور”
  • Asturian: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Dutch: “Haven van Wexford”
  • Dutch: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Estonian: “Wexfordi sadam”
  • French: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Irish: “Cuan Loch Garman”
  • Japanese: “ウェックスフォード港”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Norwegian: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Spanish: “Wexford Harbour”
  • Turkish: “Wexford Limanı”

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Notable Places Nearby

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