Marconi House
Marconi House is a memorial in County Wexford, Leinster. Marconi House is situated nearby to the hotel Coast Rosslare Strand, as well as near the art gallery Rosslare Gallery.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rosslare Strand railway station.
Rosslare Strand railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosslare Strand railway station is in Rosslare Strand, County Wexford, Ireland. It is the junction of the Dublin–Rosslare railway line and the Limerick–Rosslare railway line, the Rosslare Strand to Waterford section of which is currently not in use. Rosslare Strand railway station is situated 590 metres south of Marconi House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosslare and Tagoat.
Rosslare
Photo: David Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosslare is in County Wexford in south-east Ireland, to the south of Wexford city. It's two distinct towns, 8 km apart by road. Rosslare Europort or Harbour developed from 1906 with the arrival of the railway, when it was obvious that Wexford harbour would become silted up.
Tagoat
Village
Tagoat is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. It is located on the N25 and R736 roads, to the west of Rosslare Harbour. The village is located in the historic barony of Forth. Tagoat is situated 3½ km south of Marconi House.
Rosslare Harbour
Village
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The village of Rosslare Harbour, also known as Ballygeary, grew up to serve the needs of the harbour of the same name, first developed in 1906 by the Great Western Railway and the Great Southern and Western Railway to accommodate steamferry traffic between Great Britain and Ireland. Rosslare Harbour is situated 4½ km southeast of Marconi House.
Marconi House
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Gugliemo Marconi (1874-1937) established a wireless transmitting station here in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall and Clifden in Co. Galway. An Italian by birth but with a Jameson mother from Enniscorthy and an O’Brien wife from Clare”
- Category: historic site
- Location: County Wexford, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.27694° or 52° 16′ 37″ northLongitude
-6.3893° or 6° 23′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C4M7JG6+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 14016895829OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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