XPW042360 IRELAND (1933). General View, New Ross, Wexford, Ireland, 1933. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing East.

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Title [XPW042360] General View, New Ross, Wexford, Ireland, 1933. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing East.
Reference XPW042360
Date 1933
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Place name NEW ROSS
Parish IRELAND
District
Country IRELAND
Easting / Northing 63919, 289197
Longitude / Latitude -6.942212, 52.397296
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Wide, tidal estuary of the River Barrow, one of the famous "Three Sisters of Ireland", the other rivers being the Nore and the Suir.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 08:05:10 PM
Railway line opened in 1904 with the extension to Waterford.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 08:03:11 PM
The parish church of St.Michael & St.Mary, completed in 1902.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:44:11 PM
St.Joseph's Chapel & Mount Carmel Convent

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:40:52 PM
St.Mary's Church

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:39:58 PM

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:39:11 PM
St.Stephen's Cemetery

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:37:38 PM
Industrial School

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:36:53 PM
Good Shepherd Convent, part of which is now St.Mary's Secondary School for Girls.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:36:14 PM
High Hill and the Bullawn leading up to the Irishtown and Fair Green, site of market fairs since medieval times.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:33:44 PM
Town Hall or Tholsel at junction of Quay and South Streets.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:31:50 PM
Main shopping precinct along North and South Streets.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:30:28 PM
The Quay, New Ross, much of which is built on reclaimed land. The principal buildings include banks, customs and excise, fish merchants, warehouses, power stations, coal, slate and timber yards.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:29:19 PM
Junction of College Road and Mountgarrett lane.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:25:30 PM

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:23:42 PM
Malthouses, corn stores and coal yards on the north side of the bridge.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:22:05 PM
The 1869 swivel bridge over the River Barrow, which was in place for almost a century from 1869 until 1967. The writer first encountered this structure in late July 1964, on his way to Dublin after working on his geographical dissertation in Co.Mayo! The present O'Hanrahan Bridge was completedin 1969, 120 yards downstream from the former crossing.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:20:37 PM
Coal yards and corn stores on the west side of the Barrow Bridge(in County Kilkenny).

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:16:29 PM
Railway level crossing on the Thomastown Road, Rosbercon.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:14:59 PM
Tight S-bend on the Waterford Road over the New Ross-Waterford railway line.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:13:08 PM
Flood plain of the River Barrow at Annefield.

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Monday 6th of October 2014 07:11:19 PM

User Comment Contributions

New Ross was the adopted home town of the writer from May 1997 until July 2008!

Sean Og MacSuibhne, Pairc an Bhreanail, Ros Mhic Thriuin, Chontae Loch Garman, An Poblacht na hEireann.

John Swain
Monday 6th of October 2014 08:12:24 PM
Much of the open space in the picture has since been taken up by the suburban sprawl of modern housing estates and new schools built since the 1950s, but the Quayside has retained much of its earlier character.

John Swain
Monday 6th of October 2014 08:08:00 PM
At the time this image was taken in 1933, New Ross was the third town in the county of Wexford, after Wexford Town and Enniscorthy, with a population approaching the 5,000 mark (5,055 in the 1936 Irish Free State-later Eire-Census). Published maps of the period reveal a compact town on the east bank of the river Barrow, with a significance as a river port and links with the heart of the country via the Barrow Navigation System. A railway station was opened in 1887, connecting the town with Waterford and Dublin, although it was located in a peripheral location on the Kilkenny side of the river, just off to the left of the photograph. To all intents and purposes, the station was closed to goods and passengers in 1963, although the tracks were left in place between the town and Waterford for irregular freight traffic. The site of the former station has been derelict since 1997.

John Swain
Monday 6th of October 2014 08:01:32 PM