Foxford
| Foxford Gaelic: Béal Easa | |
| County Mayo | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | G265040 |
| Location: | 53°58’52"N, 9°6’50"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,326 (2011[1][2]) |
| Post town: | Foxford |
| Postcode: | F26 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Mayo |
Foxford is a village in County Mayo, ten miles south of Ballina. It stands on the N26 national primary route from Swinford to Ballina and has a railway station served by trains between Manulla Junction and Ballina. The village's name in Irish is Béal Easa, meaning 'mouth of the waterfall'.
Foxford lies on the River Moy, a salmon-fishing river, close to Loughs Conn and Cullin and between the Nephin and Ox Mountains. The Foxford Way is an 54-mile waymarked tourist trail that circles Foxford, taking in the Ox Mountains, bogland, archeological sites, lakeshores and river banks.
Agnes Bernard founded a convent and started a water powered woollen mill here in 1892.[3] Foxford Woollen Mills produce Foxford blankets here.
Transport
Foxford railway station is on the Manulla Junction to Ballina line which connects to the Westport-Dublin Heuston service. The station opened on 1 May 1868.[4] In 1963, despite local opposition, it was closed before reopening in 1988.
The N26 road passes through the town, crossing a narrow bridge over the River Moy.
Notable people
- Agnes Bernard founded a convent, woollen mills, band and transformed the school here.[3]
- The poet and theatre director F. R. Higgins was born in Foxford.
- Admiral William Brown, founder of the Argentine Navy, hero of the Argentine War of Independence and defender of Buenos Aires in the Cisplatine War, was born in Foxford. Statues and monuments to him are found throughout Argentina, and his name is honoured with several streets, squares, towns and associations. Busts of Admiral Brown have also been erected in Foxford and Dublin.
References
- ↑ "Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area" (PDF). Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110717202529/http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census2006_volume_1_pop_classified_by_area.pdf. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ↑ "Population". Mayo-Ireland - Foxford. http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Mayo/Towns/FxFrd/Fxfrd.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Agnes Morrogh Bernard, Towns Villages, Retrieved 6 June 2017
- ↑ "Foxford station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
