Inch () is located in

County Wexford County Wexford ( ga, Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella (''Uí Ceinns ...

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on the R772 road between

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and

Gorey Gorey () is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland. It is beside the main M11 Dublin to Wexford road. The town is also connected to the railway network along the same route. Local newspapers include the ''Gorey Guardian''. As a growi ...

. In September 2007 Inch was bypassed, having formerly been on the N11

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Wexford Wexford () is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 N ...

road. There is a creamery in Inch run by

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. Nearby villages include Castletown and Coolgreany.

Transport

Rail

Inch had a station on the Dublin to Rosslare railway line, but the station is now closed. Inch railway station opened on 1 July 1885, closed for goods traffic on 9 June 1947, and finally closed altogether on 30 March 1964.

Bus

Inch is served by a Local Link bus on Tuesdays linking it to

via Castletown. Until 2012 Inch was served by

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route 2, which then operated between

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and

Rosslare Harbour The village of Rosslare Harbour (), also known as Ballygeary, grew up to serve the needs of the harbour of the same name (now called Rosslare Europort), first developed in 1906 by the Great Western Railway and the Great Southern and Western Rai ...

. Previously, the number of services through Inch was reduced from 18 January 2009 following the implementation of a new timetable. IMG Inch1620c

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Transport

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