The Passage over Waterford Harbour to Ballyhack

Artist(s): Luttrell Wynne (Draughtsman)

View of Waterford Harbour looking eastwards towards Ballyhack in Co. Wexford. There are tall ships stationary on the right, with two other boats sailing on the left. On the far side of the water, houses are clustered near a fort at the foot of a tall hill, with a church and further buildings near its summit. In the foreground a road winds up a steep hillside.

Image Details

Genre	Townscape
Technique	Wash drawings
Subject(s)	Marines
Geographical Location	Munster – Province Waterford – County Waterford – Town or city
Keyword(s)	Bays (Bodies of water), Boats, Buildings, Churches, Clothesline, Hills, Houses, Round towers, Seas, Ships
Colour	Coloured
Dimensions	31.5 cm x 21.5 cm
Published / created	1774

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account	Journal and sketchbook, Ireland (1774)
Contributor(s)	Luttrell Wynne — Role: Author of travel text
Print or manuscript	Manuscript
Location of image in copy	PD/435 [image 23]
Source copy	Formerly in Cornwall Record Office. PD/470-473, PD/435
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1523303316
Rights	Now in private collection. No reproduction authorized.

Related text from travel account

Waterford is a city of considerable trade upon the R. Sure which is here very wide & deep enough to admit of vessels of 4 or 500 ton’s burthen coming up to the Quay. Towards the Quay which extends upon the bank of the river the whole length of the Town the city makes a good appearance, so it does from the publick walk, the Bishop’s new house and some others serving to ornament that part of it.
At the farther end of it is a large romantic old Tower. The Townhouse & Exchange upon the Quay are both handsome structures. Here is a large free school where there are 200 boys.
The distant view of the Town 1 mile off in the way to the passage is very beautiful – Here is a neat little village at the bottom of high rocky hills, with a small quay the whole length of it towards the water. The passage is a very romantic spot – on each side of the harbour are the remains of an old castle and about two miles below on the other side is Duncannon fort, for the defence of the harbour. There are only three forts in the southern part of Ireland. One at Kinsale, another at Cove below Cork and this of Duncannon.
The passage is sometimes rather dangerous particularly when the wind is up or down the river & blows with any violence. [Unpaginated]