XPW043530 IRELAND (1933). General View, Wexford, Wexford, Ireland, 1933. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing North.

Fever hospital - The local health centre is now at this location. Built in 1818 The Fever Hospital at Grogan's Road had 60 beds to house victims of epidemics such as cholera which were regular visitors to a busy port town. I cannot find a specific date for the closure of the hospital other than it was gone by 1949

Slippery Green

One of several Neo-Gothic Catholic churches built after the Emancipation Act of 1829, which dominate the skyline of Wexford Town. One of the twin churches, the church of the Assumption, is usually referred to as Bride Street Church and was completed in 1858.

Faythe suburb, the Irishtown of Wexford, which developed after the Cromwellian occupation of the mid-17th century, on the level ground to the south-east of the town walls, between the seashore and the rocky terrain of the interior.

Wexford Town's medieval core, which changed little up to the post-WWII period, apart from the suburbs of The Faythe, Slippery Green and John's Street, and the reclamation of land from the harbour to accommodate an expanding waterfront.

Railway line extended along the quayfront in the 1880s to connect to the proposed new port development at Rosslare.

Ferrybank

Quayside

O'Hanrahan Station, North Wexford, in Great Southern Railway days, was opened in 1874 and formed a terminus of the line from Dublin, over 92 miles to the north.

The New Bridge was constructed across Wexford Harbour in 1866 and lasted until 1959 despite being damaged during the Civil War of 1923.

Wexford Harbour extends 8 miles from north to south and is 4 miles wide, with a total area of 14,000 acres.

Slaney Estuary