Bridgetown (Irish: Baile an Droichid)[2] is a small rural village, located sixteen kilometres from Wexford town on the R736 regional road. It is close to Duncormick and six kilometres from the fishing village of Kilmore Quay. As of the 2016 census, the population of the village was 462.[1]

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Bridgetown Baile an Droichid
Village
Bridgetown Post Office
Bridgetown Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°14′44″N 6°32′56″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Wexford
Population  (2016)[1]	462
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Education

The local co-educational secondary school, Bridgetown College, draws students from southeast County Wexford.^{[citation needed]} Originally opened in the 1960s, an extension to the school was opened by then Minister for Education Mary O'Rourke in 1984, and a further modern extension was opened in 2008.[3]

Transport

Railway

Bridgetown railway station opened on 1 August 1906.[4] The rail service consisted of a solitary train each way between Rosslare Europort and Waterford (Plunkett) with no service on Sundays. This railway service ceased after the last train in September 2010[5] but the line remains maintained.^{[citation needed]}

Road

The rail service was replaced by a revised Bus Éireann Route 370 service. Wexford Bus operate a shuttle bus service to Wexford town and Kilmore Quay. Other buslines are Bus Éireann Route 381 (Blackhall-Wexford) and 383 (Kilmore Quay-Wexford.^{[citation needed]}

Nearby villages include Ballycogley, Duncannon, Duncormick, Kilmore, Kilmore Quay, Murrintown, Taghmon, Wellington Bridge, and Wexford Town.

Industry and economy

The village of Bridgetown has a supermarket/filling station, garage, post office, bookshop, cafe, take-away, pubs, hair salons, a tailor, an upholster, an interior design business, a doctors' surgery, pharmacy and Ballycross Apple Farm.^{[citation needed]} There are also two play school/creche facilities.^{[citation needed]}

An eighteen turbine wind farm, capable of producing 27MW and powering approximately 17,000 homes, was commissioned in Richfield, near Bridgetown in December 2006.[6]

Festival

An arts, literature music and crafts festival, the Kathleen Browne Arts & Literary Festival, was held in Bridgetown in September 2018 and September 2019.[7][8] The festival is named in honour of Kathleen Browne, a former senator who was born in Bridgetown in 1876.^{[citation needed]}

Developments

The population of Bridgetown increased from 183 residents as of the 2002 census, to 462 people in the 2016 census.[1][9] While, as of the late 1990s, there was only one housing development in the village, owing to the proximity of Wexford town, the short commute to Waterford, and the corresponding increased in population, a number of new private housing developments have been built.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

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