YOU’LL WANT TO LIVE HERE! Check out the beautiful Dunmore East Village in County Waterford, Ireland.

Today we’re visiting what is quite simply a picture-postcard seaside village. Dunmore East in county Waterford. Now the name itself Dún Mór is the Irish for big fort, referring to a fort that was established here back in the Iron Age. In More modern times – we’ll 1640 if you’d call that modern, a castle was built here on the cliff overlooking the strand, only a single tower of that original structure remains today, but again it validates the town’s name.

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We take a drive along what’s known as the Sean Kelly Cycle route named after one of Ireland’s finest cyclists winning 193 professional races, many of them the world’s most prestigious. Further up the road we pass Dunmore East Park, which houses the town’s beautiful tenis courts overlooking Waterford Bay.

We see a number picturesque cottages with lovely thatched roofs. There must be a thatcher still operating in this area, because there seems to be an abundance of these thatched properties. It’s good to see this ancient trade surviving and prospering in this part of the world.

We pass a post box with a patriotic lick of green paint, and notice it bears the marking ER. This is the cypher Edward Rex, (Rex being latin for King) refering to Edward VII king of England. So this post box dates from between 1901 and 1910, which was Edward VII’s reign. Why do we have a British king on an Irish post box? Well, for those unfamiliar with Irish history, this box predates Irish independence from Britian, and there are other boxes like this dotted around the country – we saw one in our film on Skibbereen. Re-using the British post boxes is interesting. It’s typical or us Irish to merely say, ah throw some green paint over it It’ll be grand. It’s kinda good to preserve that part of our history I suppose – the green paint being the final act of defiance.

Further up this road we can gain access to Councilor’s Beach, via some steps. Gorgeous views there out to Waterford bay.

Finally we visit the harbour, and of course the journey back round the coast is really nice, even if there are ominous looking skies up ahead of us. The area down at the harbour, again has shops restaurants and everything a popular little seaside village needs to have. And the harbour itself is second only to Killybegs, way up in Donegal, along way from here, in terms of the amount of fish it lands.

And there you have it, the beautiful Dunmore East Harbour. Proof, if proof were needed that the fish you order in the restaurants here will be as fresh as it can possibly be.