Bree
Brí
Village
Bree is located in Ireland
Bree
Bree
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°26′06″N 6°36′18″W / 52.435°N 6.605°W / 52.435; -6.605
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyWexford
Population
 (2016)[1]
193
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Area code053

Bree (Irish: Brí)[2] is a village located in the centre of County Wexford, in Ireland. As of the 2016 census, Bree had a population of 193 people.[1]

History

There is a well-preserved portal tomb (sometimes called a dolmen) located nearby at Ballybrittas, on Bree Hill, which dates from the Neolithic period.[3]

Sir James Keating, Prior of the Order of Knights Hospitaller and a leading member of the Irish government, was born here in the early years of the 15th century.[4]

Amenities

The village contains a primary school, a community centre, a GAA pitch, a soccer club Bree United and a Roman Catholic church (the Church of the Assumption) and an adjoining cemetery.[5]

A Protestant church is also located nearby.[6] This is Clonmore Church of Ireland church, and it was erected in 1827.[7] It also has an adjoining cemetery.

People

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Bree". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Brí / Bree". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ballybrittas Portal Tomb". megalithomania.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ St. John Brooks, Eric Knight's fees in Counties Wexford Carlow and Kilkenny (13th-15th centuries) Stationery Office Dublin 1950
  5. ↑ "Bree RC church". ferns.ie. Diocese of Ferns. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "Bree Parish". Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Clonmore Parish". Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. 1837. Archived from the original on 18 July 2008.
  8. ↑ "Election 2020: Paul Kehoe (Fine Gael)". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020. from the village of Bree, Kehoe was first elected to the Dáil in 2002
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