Eighteenth Century
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Shipwrecks in Tramore Bay and its Environs: Part I, The Eighteenth Century.
For centuries, Tramore Bay in County Waterford has held an infamous reputation as a graveyard of ships. The most famous of the wrecks being that of the Sea Horse transport, which driven into the bay and shipwrecked in a storm, over two hundred years ago, on 30 January 1816. This article chronicles the reports of Continue reading
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History of the Waterford-Tramore Roads
In the early 18th century, most roads in Ireland were little more than trackways carved by the movement of carts and wagons over the centuries. There’s an old story that was first published in A Guide to Tramore in 1854 concerning the old rutty and stony road that led from Waterford to Tramore in the Continue reading
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Mary Coghlan: A Resilient Tramore Business Woman
On 1 May 1790, an advertisement was placed in the local newspaper by Mary Coghlan nee Kenney, a determined entrepreneur, informing the public that she had taken out a lease on the Tramore Hotel, with plans for its grand opening on 1 June of that year. This is the first advertisement for an Irish seaside Continue reading
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The Growth of Tramore in the 18th Century
In 1738, William Doyle surveyed the coast of east Waterford and published a chart based on his findings. Doyle noted that Tramore Bay was notorious for shipwrecks and ought to be carefully avoided. Tramore is marked as ‘Tramore Town’ on the chart and two significant houses appear in close proximity to the strand, another where Continue reading
Tramore of Yore 