Historical Significance & Maritime Operations
The Port of Waterford, located along the deep River Suir near its confluence with the Barrow and Nore, held one of the oldest transatlantic connections in Irish history, originating in eighteenth-century fisheries with Newfoundland.
In the nineteenth century, Waterford Quays was an active center for emigrant vessels carrying families from Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterford to Philadelphia and New York.