KILMORE QUAY is an attractive fishing village famous for its traditional whitewashed and thatched cottages. Its harbour is a safe haven for working fishing boats and pleasure craft and in summer is the point of departure for daytrippers to Great Saltee Island bird sanctuary nearby. This part of the Wexford coast is known as the graveyard of a thousand ships and appropriately a memorial garden to those lost to the unforgiving sea was dedicated in 2001. It names all those lost along this coast and on nearby lakes and rivers, the Wexford sailors lost on all the worlds oceans, sailors torpedoed during the First World War, the crew and passengers of Aer Lingus Flight 712 which was lost near Tuskar Rock Lighthouse in 1968 and also the Air Corps helicopter crew killed during a search and rescue operation in County Waterford in 1999. Sadly additional names have been placed on the memorial due to local tragedies since its dedication. Also featured in the video is The Guillemot , a retired Lightship which served as a Maritime Museum for many years on the quays at Wexford town. It was moved to Kilmore Quay in the late 1980s and it still serves as a museum. During a storm in January 1990 (which wrecked the old harbour), The Guillemot broke from her new moorings and as a consequence is now set in concrete! Kilmore Quay Memorial Garden www.irishships.com/kilmore_quay.htm Sountrack Copyright Disclaimer: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use."

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