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Woodenbridge

Village in County Wicklow, Ireland

Summary

Village in County Wicklow, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Woodenbridge
native_name	An Droichead Adhmaid
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Woodenbridge.jpg
image_caption	The R747 over the Aughrim River, the former "Woodenbridge"
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	County Wicklow
unit_pref	Metric
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
elevation_m	25
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

Woodenbridge () is a small village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies between Arklow and Avoca, at the meeting of the Avoca, Aughrim and Goldmine rivers. The village is located at the junction of the R747 and R752 roads. The R747 crosses the Aughrim on the stone bridge which is still called "Wooden Bridge".

Name

The village was historically called Garrynagowlan, Garragowlan and Garnagowlan () after the townland it occupies.

Amenities

Woodenbridge Golf Course is located here, as are two hotels. The entire golf course was flooded to a depth of several feet during Hurricane Charley in August 1986, which also destroyed a number of bridges over the River Avoca and its tributaries.

Woodenbridge Hotel

The Woodenbridge Hotel & Lodge was established in 1608. Future Taoiseach and President Éamon de Valera and Sinéad de Valera stayed at the hotel on their honeymoon in 1910. The restaurant at the hotel is named the Goldmines Bistro after the Goldmines River and Wicklow gold rush of 1795.

Transport

The remains of an abandoned railway station on the mainline railway between Dublin and Rosslare Harbour can be seen beside the golf course. Woodenbridge railway station opened on 22 May 1865 and finally closed on 30 March 1964. Bus Éireann route 133 serves Woodenbridge four times a day on weekdays and twice on Sundays linking it to Arklow, Avoca, Rathdrum, Wicklow and Dublin.

First World War

Main article: Woodenbridge speech

At Woodenbridge on 24 September 1914, John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, addressed a muster of the Irish Volunteers, exhorting them to join the British Army. This precipitated a split between the majority "National Volunteers" who supported Redmond and of whom many enlisted, and the rump "Irish Volunteers", influenced by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which led the Easter Rising and evolved into the Irish Republican Army.

References

[http://www.logainm.ie/128858.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland: Woodenbridge]
[http://www.logainm.ie/55238.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland: Garnagowlan]
"Welcome".
[http://www.woodenbridgehotel.com/ Woodenbridge Hotel]
"Woodenbridge Hotel - About Us".
(8 November 2021). "Goldmines Bistro at Woodenbridge Hotel and Lodge". Woodenbridge Hotel.
"Woodenbridge station". Railscot - Irish Railways.
"Archived copy".
(2004). "John Redmond and Irish Unity, 1912-1918". Syracuse University Press.

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