placenamesBroadway
Gráinseach Iúir
Broadway’s documented history joins nineteenth-century fairs and services with a churchyard memorial and the wider landscape of Lady’s Island Lake.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Gráinseach Iúir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Broadway · English · main form
Place & story
A village on the road to Carne
Samuel Lewis described Broadway in 1837 as a village of 160 people on the Wexford–Carne road. It had recently ceased to be a regular post town, retaining a sub-office, and held fairs after Trinity Sunday and on 18 October. A public dispensary served the area, while a Wesleyan meeting place stood at nearby Doyle’s Cross. These details show a small service centre whose connections reached beyond the houses clustered along the road. [2]
A physician remembered at Saint Iberius
Saint Iberius’s graveyard contains a square-plan funerary monument dated 1851. Its inscription commemorates Thomas Edward Lindsey, a physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, who died that year. The monument is separately recorded by the architectural inventory for its historical and artistic interest. It gives a named nineteenth-century connection within Broadway’s older burial landscape, without requiring an uncertain identification of every surviving church ruin or grave. [3]
The lake at the village’s southern edge
Lady’s Island Lake is a shallow, brackish coastal lagoon, separated from the sea by a barrier of sand and shingle. It supports plants adapted to these unusual conditions, including tasselweeds and lagoon-specialist stoneworts. The protected landscape extends beyond the open water to reefs and vegetation on stony banks. Broadway stands at its northern end; the sea barrier lies farther south, so the village’s lakeside setting should be distinguished from the exposed coast around Carnsore Point. [4] [2]
A nearby Gothic church
Farther south beside the pilgrimage peninsula, the Church of the Assumption at Our Lady’s Island opened in August 1864. E W Pugin and George Ashlin designed it, continuing the Gothic architectural practice associated with Pugin’s father. The parish account distinguishes its opening from its formal dedication in 1881, and describes local Carne granite contrasted with red sandstone dressings. This is a nearby parish landmark, separate from Broadway’s Saint Iberius churchyard. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Forth
- Civil parish
- Saint Iberius'
- Within
- Kilscoran
- Within
- Grange
- Within
- Saint Iberius'
- Coordinates
- 52.22188, -6.39014 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 131823 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Broadway. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Broadway, County Wexford: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis, reproduced by Library Ireland
- Saint Iberius’s Graveyard, Broadway: monument 15704858 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Lady’s Island Lake SAC: site synopsis, 23 September 2013 · National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Our Lady’s Island Church: construction and architecture · Our Lady’s Island Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.