Editing Rosslare Harbour (section)

{{Short description|Village in County Wexford, Ireland}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=August 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Rosslare Harbour
| other_name               = Ballygeary
| native_name              = {{Irish place name|Cuan Ros Láir}}
| settlement_type          = Village
| image_skyline            = Rosslare Harbour - aerial - 2024-08-31 01.jpg
| image_caption            = Rosslare Harbour skyline
| pushpin_map              = Ireland
| pushpin_label_position   = right
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location in Ireland
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = Ireland
| established_title        = 
| established_date         = 
| unit_pref                = Metric
| area_footnotes           = 
| area_total_km2           = 
| population_as_of         = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
| population_footnotes     = <ref name=cso2022>{{cite web | url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=f8c1b8d1-aef8-4cdf-bbb4-3ac14d3483cf | title = Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Rosslare Harbour | work = Census 2022 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]]| access-date = 30 September 2023}}</ref>
| population_total = 2,247
| population_density_km2   = auto
| timezone1                = [[West European Time|WET]]
| utc_offset1              = +0
| timezone1_DST            = [[Irish Standard Time|IST]] ([[Western European Summer Time|WEST]])
| utc_offset1_DST          = -1
| coordinates              = {{coord|52.2513|-6.3415|dim:100000_region:IE-CO|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_footnotes      = 
| elevation_m              = 20
| blank_name               = [[Irish grid reference system|Irish Grid Reference]]
| blank_info               = {{iem4ibx|T136124}}
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}}
The village of '''Rosslare Harbour''' ({{Irish place name|Calafort Ros Láir}}),<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/131878.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Calafort Ros Láir / Rosslare Harbour | access-date = 20 March 2020 }}</ref> also known as '''Ballygeary''', grew up to serve the needs of the [[harbour]] of the same name (now called [[Rosslare Europort]]), first developed in 1906 by the [[Great Western Railway]] and the [[Great Southern and Western Railway]] to accommodate [[ferry|steamferry]] traffic between Great Britain and Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosslare Europort (Rosslare Harbour)|publisher=eOceanic|url=https://eoceanic.com/sailing/harbours/5/rosslare_harbour|access-date=30 September 2023}}</ref> This port also serves France and Spain, traffic is mainly roll-on roll-off (RoRo). [[Rosslare Europort railway station|Rosslare Harbour railway station]] opened on 30 August 1906.<ref>{{cite web | title= Rosslare Harbour| work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=7 September 2007}}</ref>