Editing Gorey (section)

==History==
{{Historical populations|state=collapsed
|1821|2132
|1831|3944
|1841|3365
|1851|2972
|1861|2673
|1871|2639
|1881|2450
|1891|2213
|1901|2178
|1911|2339
|1926|2296
|1936|2323
|1946|2687
|1951|2889
|1956|2816
|1961|2671
|1966|2858
|1971|3024
|1981|3554
|1986|3884
|1991|3850
|1996|3939
|2002|5282
|2006|7293
|2011|9114
|2016|9822
|2022|11517
| footnote=<ref name="cso2006">{{cite web|title=Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area |work=Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports |publisher=[[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]] |date=April 2007 |url=http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census2006_volume_1_pop_classified_by_area.pdf |access-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607074609/http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/census2006_volume_1_pop_classified_by_area.pdf |archive-date=7 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=Census for post 1821 figures. |access-date=1 August 2009 |archive-date=20 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090814/http://cso.ie/census |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.histpop.org | title = Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website | website = Histpop.org | access-date = 31 December 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ | archive-date = 7 May 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Census of Population| access-date=2010-01-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=17 February 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
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Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of [[standing stone]], [[fulacht fiadh]], [[burnt mound]], [[holy well]] and [[ringfort]] sites in the [[townland]]s of Gorey Hill, Gorey Corporation Lands and Ramstown Lower.<ref>{{citation | last = Bailey | first = F. | date = 2013 | title = Final report on archaeological excavations at Gorey Corporation Lands and Ramstown Lower, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 12E0306 | publisher = Irish Archaeological Consultancy }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford | place = Dublin | publisher = Government Stationery Office | date = 1996 | editor-last = Moore | editor-first = Michael | isbn = 070762326X }}</ref>

Among the earliest written recordings relating to Gorey are Norman records from 1296 which refer to an existing town on the site.<ref>{{cite book | page = [https://books.google.ie/books?id=hD5JAQAAMAAJ&pg=609 609] | quote = Gorey [..] A small town in the north of the County [..] A place of goats. See Joyce [..] That there was a town or community here as early as [[1296 in Ireland|1296]] is shown by a Return [..] "From the community of the town (Ville) of Gory, 13s" [..] Gorey, spelt Gory | title = History of the Town and County of Wexford, Volume 6 | first = Philip Herbert | last = Hore | date = 1911 | publisher = Elliot Stock| place = London }}</ref><ref name="furlong">{{cite book | title = A History of County Wexford: A comprehensive study of Wexford's history, culture and people | last = Furlong | first = Nicholas | date = 2003 | publisher = Gill & Macmillan | isbn = 9780717165407 }}</ref> Several centuries later, in 1619, the town was granted a charter as a [[borough]], under the name Newborough.<ref name="furlong"/> The borough charter had been obtained by the then [[Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin]], [[Thomas Ram]] (1564–1634).<ref name="bassett"/>

As the principal local landlords, the Ram family laid-out the town as a "planned town" in the early 17th century.<ref name="nms">{{cite web|url = https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX007-033---- | title = NMS mapping data - WX007-033---- | via = heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com | quote = WX007-033---- [..] Historic town : Gorey Corporation Lands [..] There may have been a settlement at Gorey in the thirteenth century as a payment of 13 shillings was made by 'the communityh of the town (ville) of Gorey' in 1296, but nothing further is known until the 17th century when Gorey emerges a planned town, part of the early 17-century plantation of north county Wexford }}</ref> Together with several other developments in the area, the Ram family also built a large estate to the north of the town.<ref name="guardian2017">{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/goreyguardian/news/back-to-his-roots-35590543.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | work = Gorey Guardian | title = Back to his roots | date = 8 April 2017 | access-date = 8 May 2020 | archive-date = 14 July 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714145835/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/goreyguardian/news/back-to-his-roots-35590543.html | url-status = live }}</ref> The manor house of this estate, Ramsfort, was burned following the [[Irish Rebellion of 1641]], and again during the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]].<ref name="lewis"/><ref name="bassett"/><ref name="guardian2017"/> Ramsfort house was rebuilt in the 19th century to designs attributed to architect [[Daniel Robertson (architect)|Daniel Robertson]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://archiseek.com/2016/ramsfort-gorey-co-wexford/ | publisher = archiseek.com | work = Architecture of Wexford | title = Ramsfort, Gorey, Co. Wexford | date = 2016 | access-date = 9 May 2020 | archive-date = 27 July 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200727113034/https://archiseek.com/2016/ramsfort-gorey-co-wexford/ | url-status = live }}</ref>

In addition to Gorey's 18th century [[market house]],<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601064/gorey-market-house-main-street-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | date = 9 May 2020 | title = Gorey Market House, Main Street, Gorey, County Wexford}}</ref> many of the larger buildings within the town itself date to the mid-19th century. These include [[Gorey railway station]] which dates to 1863,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601090/gorey-railway-station-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | date = 9 May 2020 | title = Gorey Railway Station, Gorey, County Wexford | access-date = 8 May 2020 | archive-date = 14 July 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714145842/https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601090/gorey-railway-station-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | url-status = live }}</ref> the Church of Ireland church (Kilmakilloge) dating to 1861,<ref name="niahCOI">{{cite web | url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601016/christ-church-kilmakilloge-main-street-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | date = 9 May 2020 | title = Christ Church (Kilmakilloge), Main Street, Gorey, County Wexford | access-date = 8 May 2020 | archive-date = 14 July 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714145836/https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601016/christ-church-kilmakilloge-main-street-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | url-status = live }}</ref> and the Roman Catholic church (dedicated to Saint Michael) completed in 1843.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601096/catholic-church-of-saint-michael-the-archangel-originally-saint-michaels-catholic-saint-michaels-road-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | date = 9 May 2020 | title = Catholic Church of Saint Michael, Saint Michael's Road, Gorey, County Wexford | access-date = 8 May 2020 | archive-date = 14 July 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714145839/https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601096/catholic-church-of-saint-michael-the-archangel-originally-saint-michaels-catholic-saint-michaels-road-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | url-status = live }}</ref> Gorey was the centre of several conflicts during the 1798 Rebellion, and a memorial to these events was erected in the town in the rebellion's centenary year (1898).<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601006/1798-monument-mccurtain-street-originally-william-street-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | date = 9 May 2020 | title = 1798 Monument, McCurtain Street, Gorey, County Wexford | access-date = 8 May 2020 | archive-date = 21 June 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200621063802/https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15601006/1798-monument-mccurtain-street-originally-william-street-gorey-corporation-lands-gorey-county-wexford | url-status = live }}</ref>

The parents of [[Jim Bolger]], the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, emigrated from Gorey in the 1930s.<ref name="The Bolger challenge">{{cite news |last=Shand |first=Greg |date=16 December 1985 |title=The Bolger challenge |page=B1 |work=[[Auckland Star]]}}</ref>