Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lady's Island (or St Mary's)

Lady's Island (or St Mary's), coast par., in co. and 8 miles SE. of Wexford, 597 ac., pop. 235. Lady's Island Lake (2½ miles by 1 mile) is an inlet of the sea with a very narrow entrance; at the head of the lake are ruins of a monastery.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wexford IrlC
Place names: LADYS ISLAND     |     LADYS ISLAND OR ST MARYS     |     ST MARYS
Place: Ladys Island

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