Passage East

Passage East An Pasáiste Thoir
Village
Passage East as seen from the car ferry
Passage East Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°14′21″N 6°58′22″W / 52.23910°N 6.97274°W / 52.23910; -6.97274Coordinates: 52°14′21″N 6°58′22″W / 52.23910°N 6.97274°W / 52.23910; -6.97274
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Waterford
Time zone	WET (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST)	IST (WEST) (UTC-1)

Passage East (Irish: An Pasáiste Thoir) is a fishing village in County Waterford, Ireland, situated on the west bank of Waterford Harbour.^[1] It is 12 km from Waterford 10 km from Dunmore East and 21 km from Tramore.

History

On 23 August 1170, a year after Strongbow landed in Bannow, symbolising the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland, he returned to the country with 200 knights and 1,000 men, landing in Passage East.

Nearby are the ruins of Geneva Barracks, a one time planned utopian colony turned into a notorious prison and point of departure for thousands of rebels transported from the country for participation in the 1798 rebellion.

Beach

Passage East has a nice long beach great for fishing with some fine specimen bass being caught, other fish being caught on the beach vary from codlin, whitting, flatfish and pollick. It is possible to walk from Passage to Woodstown when the tide is out, this is a great walk on a sunny morning to take in the views across the river towards Duncannon. Passage East also has a natural mussel bed in which you can dig for ragworm and also the beach produces good hauls of lug. Lug can be dug all the way along the coast to Woodstown.

Transport

Car ferry

Passage East Ferry Company Limited, which has been in operation since 1982, links the village, and County Waterford as a whole, with County Wexford, specifically the village of Ballyhack. A journey on the company's vessel, The Tintern, which has a capacity for 28 cars, saves motorists a road journey of approximately 55 km. There has been some local concern in recent years about the level of traffic through the village generated by the car ferry.

Bus service

Suirway operate a bus route linking Passage East to Waterford. ^[2] Some buses operate via Dunmore East.

Sport

The local GAA club, Passage GAA, concentrates on hurling. Its best known players are Sean Cullinane and Eoin Kelly. Eoin Kelly won Passage's first All-Star award in 2008. The football club associated with the Passage area is Gaultier.

Festival

The annual Waterford Estuary Mussel Festival is held in Passage East every September.

References

↑ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Dublin City University. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
↑ http://suirway.com/timetables.html

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Places in County Waterford

County town: Dungarvan

Towns	Dungarvan Lismore Tramore Waterford

Villages and Townlands	Abbeyside Affane Aglish Annestown Ardmore Ballinacourty Ballynagaul Ballinameela Ballinamult Ballinroad Ballybeg Ballylaneen Ballysaggart Bunmahon Cappoquin Carrickbeg Clashmore Dunmore East Fenor Ferrybank Grange Kill Kilmacthomas Kilmeadan Kilrossanty Knockanore Lemybrien Mahon Bridge Mothel Old Parish Passage East Portlaw Rathgormack Ring Sliabh gCua Stradbally Tallow Tooraneena Villierstown Woodstown

List of townlands of County Waterford Category:Mountains and hills of County Waterford Category:Rivers of County Waterford Category:Geography of County Waterford

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