Bridgetown, County Wexford

Bridgetown (Irish: Baile an Droichid) (Yola: Burstheoune) is a small rural village, located sixteen kilometres from Wexford town on the R736 regional road, it's close to Duncormick and only six kilometres from the picturesque fishing village of Kilmore Quay. The population of the village is 747.

The local co-ed secondary school, Bridgetown Vocational College draws students in from south east County Wexford. Currently helmed by principal Ms. Finnuala Green, the school has undergone major expansion since its original construction. Most notably the 1984 extension opened by the then Minister for Education Mary O'Rourke, and the highly modern new extension which was opened for the academic year 2007/2008.

Bridgetown railway station opened on 1 August 1906. The rail service consisted of a solitary train each way between Rosslare Europort and Waterford (Plunkett) with no service on Sundays. This railway service ceased after the last train on 18 September 2010 (http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/general_news.asp?action=view&news_id=900) but the line remains maintained.

The rail service was replaced by a revised Bus Éireann Route 370 service. Wexford Bus operate a shuttle bus service to Wexford town and Kilmore Quay. Other buslines are Bus Éireann Route 381 (Blackhall-Wexford) and 383 (Kilmore Quay-Wexford.

Nearby villages include:

The village of Bridgetown is quite self-sufficient with local butcher shop, supermarket/filling station, garage, post office, take-away, pubs, hair salon, an interiors/soft furnishings store, a doctors' surgery, pharmacy and Ballycross Apple Farm all within easy walking distance. There are also two play school/creche facilities.

Owned and operated by Michael Paget, and his family, situated on land which surrounds the local Church of Ireland. This longstanding local business, which derives its name from the former residence of the Church of Ireland Rector, in which the Paget family now live, has acres of glass houses, growing seasonal flowers, and plants for many shops and supermarkets or the individual visitor to the nursery, as well as having several acres of blackcurrants, which are used by Beechams (now GSK) in the UK for the production of Ribena.

...
Wikipedia