Nineteenth 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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The Last Voyage of the Sea Horse: Tramore’s most Infamous Shipwreck
Ramsgate on the morning of the 25 January 1816, would have presented a bustling scene as the troops of the 59th and 62nd regiments, marched down the Military Road to the harbour to embark on their vessels for their journey to Cork. The majority of the 59th boarded the Sea Horse, Master James Gibbs, a Continue reading
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The History of Seawater Bath Houses in Tramore
Seawater bath houses have a long history in Ireland. The therapeutic use of seawater for health and wellness purposes has been practiced for centuries in various cultures around the world, including Ireland. However, it wasn’t until the 18th and 19th centuries that seawater bath houses became popular in the country. The high mineral content of Continue reading
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Death of a Chimney Sweep
On Thursday 30 August 1832, an inquest was held in Waterford City into the death of a twelve year old ‘climbing boy’ named Michael Brien. The body of the boy was presented before the coroner Michael Evelyn and a ‘respectable jury’. Brien was an apprentice to Philip Corbett; a chimney sweep from Keyser’s Lane in Continue reading
Tramore of Yore 