History
May 1169
The first Norman forces arrived on three single-masted Longships at Bannow Bay, County Wexford in May 1169. They had sailed from Milford Haven in Wales, and on board were Normans, Welshmen and Flemings. Their leader was Robert FitzStephen, a Norman-Welsh warlord, and they made camp on Bannow Island, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel which has since silted up. A day later, two further ships arrived under the command of Maurice de Prendergast, bringing their numbers to around 600. They were joined by 500 Irish warriors led by Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster. From Bannow the combined armies headed towards Wexford, a Viking seaport some 20 miles away. There was a brief skirmish at Duncormick, before they continued on to assault Wexford’s walls. For more information about the battle at Duncormac, see Siege of Wexford.
1850's
In the 1850s, the village of Duncormick had a population of about 250. The nearby Bridgetown Canal was constructed between 1850 and 1853. It is five miles in length and less than 5 minutes walk from the village centre. The Canal served the communities of Bridgetown and Duncormick. While initially part of an extensive drainage and reclamation scheme, it was subsequently used as a transport system. Traffic was still plentiful in 1913 and the canal remained in use up to the 1940s.
August 1940
On a sunny day in August, 1940, a German war plane attacked the communities of Duncormick and Campile. It released four bombs over Duncormick railway station, luckily the bombs missed the station, making four huge craters in a nearby turnip field. But the community of Campile was not so lucky, two people were killed. Not long afterward Duncormick railway station was one of many rural train stations in Ireland to be closed.
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