Dungarvan

Dungarvan ( Irish: Dún Garbháin ) is a port town in County Waterford in the south of Ireland.

The place

Dungarvan is situated on the south coast of Ireland and is the administrative seat of the county Waterford. Its Irish name is derived from the Holy Garbhan, who built at this point in the 7th century a church, and means " Garbhans fortress ". The city is crossed and divided into two parts by the River Colligan, which opens here on the St. George's Channel in the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The causeway and the single arch bridge that spans the river were built by the Dukes of Devonshire. The population Dungarvans amounted to 8,116 people at the 2006 census.

In the district north of the Colligan, called Abbeyside, there are integrated in a Roman Catholic Church remains of the Augustinian monastery dating from the 4th century. At the port of Dungarvan King John built a castle.

Transport links

Dungarvan is between Waterford and Youghal on the N25, which runs from Rosslare Harbour Wexford and New Ross to Cork City. In Dungarvan also begins the N72, which leads over Fermoy and Mallow to Killarney in County Kerry. On the rail transport in Ireland Dungarvan is no longer connected.

Twinning

Dungarvan is connected since 2008 by a twinning with the U.S. city of Erie ( Pennsylvania).

Personalities

• Ernest Walton (1903-1995), Nobel Laureate in Physics ( 1951)
• Austin Deasy (* 1936), politician of the Fine Gael