Villierstown
Village in County Waterford, Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Villierstown (Irish: An Baile Nua, meaning 'the new town')[2] is a village in west County Waterford, Ireland. It is situated on the banks of the River Blackwater, and was founded in the 1740s by a local landlord, John Villiers, as a base for the linen industry, and initially populated primarily from Lurgan. In the census of 2016, the population of the village was 276.[1]
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Villierstown
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Village | |
Coordinates: 52°05′17″N 7°51′08″W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Munster |
County | Waterford |
Population | 276 |
Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
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The village is approximately 8 kilometres from Cappoquin and 20 kilometres from both Dungarvan and Youghal.