Tramore

Tramore was a small fishing hamlet until the railway from Waterford came in 1853 and made it a resort; the line connected to no other and closed in 1961. Its best-known landmark is the Metal Man, a cast-metal sailor on Newtown Head pointing out to sea, put up after the troopship Sea Horse was wrecked in the bay in 1816. The seahorse became the town's symbol and, in 1955, the logo of Waterford Crystal.

A church built in 1809 is the first record of a settlement, and in 1837 Drumcannon parish, which included Tramore, had 4,835 people. On 30 January 1816 the transport Sea Horse foundered in the bay with the 2nd battalion of the 59th Regiment of Foot on board; 292 men and 71 women and children died. Because the bay is easily mistaken for the Suir estuary, the insurers, Lloyd's of London, paid for pillars on Newtown Head and Brownstown Head, put up in 1823, with the Metal Man on the central pillar at Newtown. The railway from Waterford opened in 1853 and closed on 1 January 1961. On 6 June 1921 an IRA ambush of British troops at Pickardstown, north of the town, went wrong in the dark and two Volunteers were killed.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Tramore ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Gaulstown Portal Tomb · dolmen · 7 km
• Knockeen Portal Tomb · dolmen · 7 km
• Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb · dolmen · 9 km
• Ballygunner Castle · castle · 10 km
• Corluddy Castle · castle · 12 km
• Gorteens Castle · castle · 14 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Hook Lighthouse · Raised between 1201 and 1240 by William Marshal to guide ships to his port at New Ross, with walls four metres thick. It is still working, eight centuries on — the second-oldest operating lighthouse in the world.
• Reginald’s Tower · The oldest civic building in Ireland, and the only urban monument in the country still carrying a Norse name. Strongbow married Diarmait Mac Murchada’s daughter Aoife here — the marriage that tied Leinster to the Normans.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.