ireland
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The Haunted Well & Other Ghost Stories
There are several ghost stories associated with Tramore, the most famous of which is the spectre known as ‘The Guramooghagh,’ a mysterious figure who is believed to haunt the Rabbit Burrows. Other captivating stories include the Ghost Band of the Sea Horse, a spectral ensemble said to play a haunting melody on stormy nights, and Continue reading
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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 Turbulent History of Tramore in the 17th Century
Ireland in the seventeenth century has been aptly described as ‘a land of blood and ashes.’[1] It was the time when the last bastions of the old Gaelic order were finally swept away by rebellion and conquest. At the beginning of the century all the townlands in the area around Tramore were owned by branches Continue reading
Tramore of Yore 