Editing Tramore (section)

===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.