Bridgetown, County Wexford
| Bridgetown Irish: Baile an Droichid | |
| County Wexford | |
|---|---|
 Bridgetown Post Office | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | S991114 |
| Location: | 52°14’44"N, 6°32’56"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 462 (2016) |
| Local Government | |
Bridgetown is a small rural village, ten miles from Wexford town on the R736 regional road. It is close to Duncormick and four miles from the fishing village of Kilmore Quay. As of the 2016 census, the population of the village was 462.
Railway
Bridgetown railway station opened on 1 August 1906.[1] The rail service consisted of a solitary train each way between Rosslare Europort and Waterford (Plunkett) with no service on Sundays. This railway service ceased after the last train in September 2010[2] but the line remains maintained.[3]
Industry and economy
The village of Bridgetown has a supermarket/filling station, garage, post office, bookshop, cafe, take-away, pubs, hair salons, a tailor, an upholster, an interior design business, a doctors' surgery, pharmacy, a fish monger, and the nearby Ballycross Apple Farm.[4] There are also two play school/creche facilities.[citation needed]
An eighteen-turbine wind farm, capable of producing 27MW and powering approximately 17,000 homes, was commissioned in Richfield, near Bridgetown in December 2006.[5]
Events
An arts, literature music and crafts festival, the Kathleen Browne Arts & Literary Festival, was held in Bridgetown in September 2018 and September 2019.[6][7] The festival is named in honour of Kathleen Browne, a former senator who was born in Bridgetown in 1876.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "Bridgetown station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
- ↑ "End of the line". Independent News & Media. 21 September 2010. https://www.independent.ie/regionals/newrossstandard/news/end-of-the-line-27500648.html. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ "Encouraging recent developments on the Wexford-Waterford rail line". https://fleet.ie/encouraging-recent-developments-on-the-wexford-waterford-rail-line/.
- ↑ "Ballycross Apple Farm". https://www.ballycross.com/.
- ↑ "Richfield Wind Farm". SSE. https://ireland.sse.com/what-we-do/our-projects-and-assets/renewable/richfield/. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ "Brownes gather for Bridgetown festival". Wexford People. 29 September 2018. https://www.wexfordpeople.ie/out-about/brownes-gather-for-bridgetown-festival-37350736.html. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ "Festival Schedule 2019". https://kathleenbrownefestival.net/festival-schedule-2019/. Retrieved 18 January 2020.