Editing Tramore (section)

==History==
There is a record of a settlement at Tramore in 1809, when a church was built.<ref>[https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history_and_geneology/timeline/tramore_in_the_1830s ''Ireland XO website'', Retrieved 2023-04-15]{{Dead link|date=September 2024}}</ref>

The ''Topological Dictionary of Ireland'' of 1837 notes that Drumcannon Parish (including Tramore) had 4835 inhabitants. There was one endowed school, one school supported by local subscription, three private schools and a Sunday School. Tramore also had an [[almshouse]] at that time.<ref>[https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history_and_geneology/timeline/tramore_in_the_1830s ''Ireland XO website'', Retrieved 2023-04-15]{{Dead link|date=September 2024}}</ref>

===The Sea Horse tragedy===
{{Main|Wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville}}
On 30 January 1816, the transport ship ''Sea Horse'' foundered in Tramore Bay with the 2nd battalion of the [[59th Regiment of Foot]] on board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irelandsown.ie/the-sinking-of-the-sea-horse/|title=The Sinking of the Sea Horse|last=Cleere|first=Ray|date=25 January 2016|website=Ireland's Own|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424032333/https://www.irelandsown.ie/the-sinking-of-the-sea-horse/|url-status=live}}</ref> 292 men and 71 women and children perished.<ref name="lancmuseum">{{cite web | url=http://www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk/the-regiments-greatest-tragedy-the-wrecking-of-the-seahorse-lord-melville-boadicea/ | work=Lancashire Infantru Museum | title=The Regiment's Greatest Tragedy - The Wrecking of the Seahorse, Lord Melville & Boadicea | date=11 January 2015 | access-date=11 June 2015 | archive-date=3 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703175745/http://www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk/the-regiments-greatest-tragedy-the-wrecking-of-the-seahorse-lord-melville-boadicea/ | url-status=live }}</ref> A monument to the incident is located on Doneraile Walk and an obelisk marks a burial plot at Christ Church on Church Road.

The town's connection to the tragedy led to the image of a [[seahorse]] being adopted as a symbol of the town of Tramore and later adopted as the logo for [[Waterford Crystal]] in 1955.

===The Metal Man===
[[File:Greater Newtown Head in Tramore.jpg|thumb|right|The "Metal Man" statue is visible on the leftmost of the three pillars.]]
From the sea, Tramore Bay can be easily confused with the traditional safe haven of the [[Suir]] estuary. After the sinking of the ''Sea Horse'', its insurers [[Lloyd's of London]] funded the building of piers and the erection of pillars on two headlands as a visual aid to prevent similar calamities from happening. The pillars, three on Newtown Head and two on Brownstown Head, were erected in 1823.

"The Metal Man" is a 3-metre tall cast-metal figure of a sailor pointing seawards, set atop the central pillar on Newtown Head. According to local lore, he is said to warn seafarers away from dangerous shallow waters by calling out "keep off, keep off, good ship from me, for I am the rock of misery".<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vSZaXo1t-QC&pg=PA149|title=Seascapes|last=MacSweeney|first=Tom|publisher=Mercier Press|year=2008|isbn=9781856356008|location=Ireland|pages=149|chapter=The Rock of Misery and a Chance for Marriage}}</ref>

=== The Guillamene ===
The Newtown and Guillamene swimming coves are located just off Cliff Road at the base of Newtown Head. Until the early 1980s, the Guillamene was a men-only swimming cove. Women and children were expected to bathe at Newtown. The "men-only" sign has been preserved as a reminder of times past, but today both coves are popular with swimmers of all genders and ages.

=== The Waterford and Tramore Railway ===
{{Main|Waterford and Tramore Railway}}
Before the late 18th century, Tramore was a small fishing hamlet. In 1853, a 12&nbsp;km (7&nbsp;mile)-long railway line was opened between Waterford's Railway Square to the terminus in Tramore. It was unique in that it was not connected to any other line. This closed on 1 January 1961.<ref>{{cite web | title=Tramore station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=24 November 2007 | archive-date=26 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926042407/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>{{Verification failed|date=September 2024}}

===The Pickardstown ambush===
{{Main|Pickardstown ambush}}
On the night of 6 June 1921, during the [[Irish War of Independence]], 50 local IRA Volunteers attempted to ambush a party of 40 British troops from Waterford City, who were coming to Tramore following an attack on the RIC barracks there. The ambush took place at Pickardstown, about a mile to the north of Tramore. The ambush failed to go according to plan as they could not  see in the dark field. This caused the death of two IRA men with two more wounded. Tramore's Micheál MacCraith GAA Club is named after one of the dead Volunteers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~tramoregaa/history.htm |title=Tramore GAA website - History |access-date=11 December 2009 |archive-date=19 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719160234/http://homepage.eircom.net/~tramoregaa/history.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{Historical populations
| state = collapsed
|1813|726
|1821|889
|1831|2224
|1841|1120
|1851|1882
|1861|1847
|1871|2011
|1881|2036
|1891|1850
|1901|1733
|1911|1644
|1926|1812
|1936|2047
|1946|2379
|1951|2825
|1956|2919
|1961|2882
|1966|3271
|1971|3792
|1981|5635
|1986|5999
|1991|6064
|1996|6536
|2002|8305
|2006|9635
|2011|10328
|2016|10381
|2022|11277
| footnote={{Dubious|date=August 2009}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=CSO - Census: Census Startpage |access-date=1 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309005718/http://www.cso.ie/census/ |archive-date=9 March 2005 }} and www.histpop.org. Post-2002 figures include the environs of Tramore. For a discussion on the accuracy of [[Great Famine (Ireland)|pre-famine]] census returns see [[J. J. Lee (historian)|J. J. Lee]] "On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses" in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p. 54, and also "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850" by Joel Mokyr and [[Cormac Ó Gráda]] in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov. 1984), pp. 473-488.
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