Adamstown, County Wexford

Adamstown, County Wexford

Infobox Irish Place
name = Adamstown
gaeilge = Maigh Arnaí
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pin coords = left: 45px; top: 77px
north coord = 52.394
west coord = 6.717
irish grid = S872275
area =
elevation = 48 m (157 ft)
province = Leinster
county = County Wexford
town pop = 173 [PDFlink| [http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census2006_volume_1_pop_classified_by_area.pdf Census 2006 — Volume 1 (Dublin: Stat. Off., 27 April 2007) - p. 135.] |4.22 MBCentral Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved on 2008-05-22.]
rural pop =
census yr = 2006
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Adamstown ("Maigh Arnaí" in Irish) is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. It is about km to mi | 24 | abbr=yes | precision=0 from Wexford and km to mi | 20 | abbr=yes | precision=0 from New Ross and Enniscorthy.

The village contains a primary school, a secondary school, a GAA pitch, a community centre, two pubs, a shop, a R.C. church and an adjoining cemetery. Almost adjacent to the village is Adamstown castle (or tower house), which dates from the 16th century.

Famous Residents

*Padraic Delaney - Irish actor.
*Kevin Doyle - Irish footballer.

References


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