Campile

Infobox Irish Place
name = Campile
gaeilge = Campile
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north coord = 52.283333
west coord = 6.93333
irish grid = S726155
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elevation = 48 m (157 ft)
province = Leinster
county = County Wexford
town pop = 347
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census yr = 2006
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Campile (Irish place name|Ceann Phuill) is a small village situated in the south of County Wexford, Ireland. It is nine miles (14 km) outside the town of New Ross.Nearby exists the ruins of an old Cistercian abbey of Dunbrody.

Transport

It is served Mondays to Saturdays by one passenger train in each direction and also by the local Bus Éireann route. Campile railway station opened on 1 August 1906. [cite web | title=Campile station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf
accessdate=2007-09-07]

History

During the Irish Rebellion of 1798, a Rebel camp was located on nearby Slieve Coillte hill.Ireland remained officially neutral during World War 2. However, on 26 August 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed Campile. Three women were killed. [ "Furlong", p. 143.] cite web
url=http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/bombing-of-campile-remembered-992708.html
title=Bombing of Campile remembered
work=Wexford People
date=Friday, 1 September 2000
accessdate=2008-05-09] — Mary Ellen Kent (30), her sister Catherine Kent (26), both from Terrerath, and Kathleen Hurley (27) from Garryduff. cite web
url=http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/bombing-of-campile-remembered-992708.html
title=Bombing of Campile remembered
work=Wexford People
date=Friday, 1 September 2000
accessdate=2008-05-09] Four German bombs were dropped on the creamery and restaurant sections of Shelburne Co-op on that day. The attack has never been fully explained. cite web
url=http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/bombing-of-campile-remembered-992708.html
title=Bombing of Campile remembered
work=Wexford People
date=Friday, 1 September 2000
accessdate=2008-05-09] On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bombing, a plaque was erected on the co-op walls in memory of the three women.

Athur O' Connor's book "Campile" is a personal tale of German spies engaged in counter espionage to stop the building of Harland & Wolfes proposed and recently declassified deep sea port just outside campile.

port

The local sports teams for Campile and the surrounding area are Campile United in Soccer who play in the Wexford soccer league and Horeswood who play in the Wexford Gaelic football and Hurling leagues. Near the railway station there is an open air 60x30 handball alley.

Education

Scoil Mhuire is situated in the townsland of Ballinamona, Campile, Co. Wexford, on the New Ross-Campile road. It is a central school for the Parish of Sutton's, which is divided into Horeswood Parish and Ballykelly Parish. In 1979, four schools in the parish amalgamated into Scoil Mhuire. These four schools were Aclare NS, Ballykelly NS, Horeswood NS, and Killesk NS.

References

ources

*Furlong, Nicholas. "A History of County Wexford". Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 2003. ISBN 0 7171 3461 X.

ee also

* List of towns in the Republic of Ireland

External links

* [http://homepage.eircom.net/~horeswoodns/index.htm Scoil Mhuire, Horeswood NS]
* [http://www.horeswoodgaa.com/ Horeswood GAA Club]