{{Short description|Holiday village in County Wexford, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Curracloe |native_name = {{lang|ga|Currach Cló}} |native_name_lang = ga |settlement_type = Village |image_skyline = IMG Curracloe943.jpg |image_caption = Entering the village on the R742 road |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Leinster |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = Wexford |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = 2006 |population_footnotes = |population_total = |population_density_km2 = auto |coordinates = {{coord|52|23|34.44|N|6|23|18.6|W|dim:1000_region:IE|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |area_code = 053 |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = <!-- {{iem4ibx|??????}} --> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Curracloe''' ({{Irish place name|Currach Cló|marsh of the impression}}<ref>A. D. Mills, 2003, ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names'', Oxford University Press</ref>) is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. Around {{convert|8|km|0}} northeast of Wexford town, it is on the R742 road at the junction with the R743 road. It is linked to the long and sandy Curracloe Strand (beach) {{convert|4|km|mi|1|abbr=on}} to the east. Curracloe sees an influx of holiday travellers every summer, who stay in bed & breakfast inns, mobile homes and caravan parks.<ref>[http://wexfordhub.com/places/curracloe-beach/ ''Curracloe Beach'']. - Wexford Hub. - Retrieved: 2015-10-21</ref>
==Beach== thumb|left|226px|Curracloe Strand, County Wexford Ballinesker Beach and Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, were used for the filming of the D-Day sequence in ''Saving Private Ryan'', due to similarity to Omaha Beach in Normandy.<ref>[http://www.sproe.com/o/omaha-beach.html Omaha Beach]. | [http://www.sproe.com/d/dog-one.html Dog One]. - Saving Private Ryan Online Encyclopedia. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09</ref><ref>[http://www.iftn.ie/locations/sublinks_static/wexford/?act1=record&aid=70&rid=1493&tpl=filmography_dets&only=1&force=1 Saving Private Ryan]. - Irish Film and Television Network. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09</ref> Filming began 27 June 1997, and lasted for two months.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071120085518/http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/private--ryan-expo-697670.html "Private Ryan' expo"]. - ''Wexford People''. - 6 June 2007. - | [http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryans-slaughter-434700.html "Ryan's slaughter"]. Independent Newspapers. - 3 August 1998. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09</ref><ref>[http://www.britannia.org/film/filmdetails.php?FilmID=00000506 ''Saving Private Ryan'']. - Britannia Film Archives. - Retrieved: 2008-06-09</ref> The village of Curracloe lacked three-phase electricity but when the film company decided to film there, it was connected.<ref>"10th anniversary of Saving Private Ryan". - ''Wexford Echo''. - 31 May 2007</ref> Curracloe Strand was also used for the Irish beach scene in the movie ''Brooklyn''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/10/colm-toibin-film-brooklyn-novel | title=Colm Tóibín on filming his novel Brooklyn: 'Everyone in my home town wanted to be an extra' | date=10 October 2015 | newspaper=The Guardian | first=Colm | last=Tóibín | accessdate=9 February 2020 }}</ref> <br> ==See also== * List of towns and villages in Ireland
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Category:Towns and villages in County Wexford Category:Beaches of County Wexford