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Curracloe

Holiday village in County Wexford, Ireland

Summary

Holiday village in County Wexford, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Curracloe
native_name	Currach Cló
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	IMG Curracloe943.jpg
image_caption	Entering the village on the R742 road
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Wexford
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2006
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
area_code	053
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

Curracloe () is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. Around 8 km northeast of Wexford town, it is on the R742 road at the junction with the R743 road. It is linked to the long and sandy Curracloe Strand (beach) 4 km to the east. Curracloe sees an influx of holiday travellers every summer, who stay in bed & breakfast inns, mobile homes and caravan parks.

Beach

Ballinesker Beach and Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, were used for the filming of the D-Day sequence in Saving Private Ryan, due to similarity to Omaha Beach in Normandy. Filming began 27 June 1997, and lasted for two months. The village of Curracloe lacked three-phase electricity but when the film company decided to film there, it was connected. Curracloe Strand was also used for the Irish beach scene in the movie Brooklyn.

References

A. D. Mills, 2003, ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names'', Oxford University Press
[http://wexfordhub.com/places/curracloe-beach/ ''Curracloe Beach'']. - Wexford Hub. - Retrieved: 2015-10-21
[http://www.sproe.com/o/omaha-beach.html Omaha Beach].. [http://www.sproe.com/d/dog-one.html Dog One]. - Saving Private Ryan Online Encyclopedia. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09
[http://www.iftn.ie/locations/sublinks_static/wexford/?act1=record&aid=70&rid=1493&tpl=filmography_dets&only=1&force=1 Saving Private Ryan]. - Irish Film and Television Network. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071120085518/http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/private--ryan-expo-697670.html "Private Ryan' expo"]. - ''Wexford People''. - 6 June 2007. -. [http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryans-slaughter-434700.html "Ryan's slaughter"]. Independent Newspapers. - 3 August 1998. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09
[http://www.britannia.org/film/filmdetails.php?FilmID=00000506 ''Saving Private Ryan'']. - Britannia Film Archives. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09
"10th anniversary of Saving Private Ryan". - ''Wexford Echo''. - 31 May 2007
Tóibín, Colm. (10 October 2015). "Colm Tóibín on filming his novel Brooklyn: 'Everyone in my home town wanted to be an extra'". The Guardian.

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