Foynes (/ˈfɔɪnz/; Irish: Faing[2]) is a town and major port in County Limerick in the midwest of Ireland, located at the edge of hilly land on the southern bank of the Shannon Estuary. The population of the town was 520 as of the 2016 census.[1]
^ ab"Sapmap Area - Settlements - Foynes". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^"Faing/Foynes". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 10 December 2021.
the Shannon Foynes Port Company, an amalgamation under the Harbours Act 2000 of the agencies operating the ports of Limerick and Foynes. It is anticipated...
Kildimo, Askeaton, Foynes & Glin and continues towards Listowel in County Kerry. It is the main road linking the Port of Foynes with Limerick city, although...
is operated and managed by the Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC), whose main operating office is based in Foynes, County Limerick. SFPC has statutory jurisdiction...
bypassing the need for Foynes. Shannon Foynes Port Company is the port authority for the entire estuary. It owns facilities at Foynes Dock, Limerick City...
"Irish coffee" (a cocktail of coffee and whiskey reputedly invented at Foynes flying-boat station) is probably the best-known Irish cocktail. Stout, a...
one of the points marking the extent of Shannon Foynes Port, the port on the estuary. "Shannon Foynes Port Company - Deepwater multimodal port - serving...
traditional Irish music acts. In County Limerick, Adare village and the Foynes Flying Boat Museum, approximately 35 km (22 miles/30 minutes) from Limerick...
Airways flew from Foynes to Botwood, in a Short Empire class flying boat named Caledonia. 21 July 1938: The Short Mercury flew from Foynes, on the west coast...
the Limerick & Foynes Railway company, was closed to passengers on 4 February 1963 and to freight on 2 December 1974. The line to Foynes continued to carry...
the plan under way. There is a life-size 314 mockup at the Foynes Flying Boat Museum, Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland, located on the site of the original...
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Jacobin City; I. Scott: Reactions to Radicalism in Norwich 1989–1802; J. P. Foynes: East Anglia against the Tricolor 1789–1815; Cambridge Modern History. Jewson...
2010-08-13 "Shannon Foynes Port Company - Deepwater multimodal port - serving Ireland's west, south and midlands". Shannon Foynes Port Company. Retrieved...
including Dublin, Cork (Whitegate Refinery), Whiddy Island (Bantry Bay), Foynes, Shannon, Tarbert (power station), and Galway. Stocks are also held at Derry...
trains bound for Foynes, Newcastle West and Tralee. While passenger services ceased in 1963, freight trains between Limerick and Foynes ran until 2000.[citation...
Prize for Fiction. Also in 1989 the Foynes Flying boat Museum at its inception, was sponsored as the GPA Foynes Flying Boat Museum. A statue of Daedalus...
Sunderland G-BJHS was painted for a proposed sponsorship between Ryanair and the Foynes Flying Boat Museum, but this did not happen, and the aircraft was returned...
All-Island Strategic Rail Review. The Shannon Foynes Port Company has been seeking reinstatement of the Limerick to Foynes Railway Line, which last operated in...
III left Botwood for Foynes in County Limerick, Ireland. The same day, a Short Empire C-Class flying boat, the Caledonia, left Foynes for Botwood, and landed...
by Imperial Airways for the first westbound transatlantic service from Foynes, Ireland to Newfoundland. In 1936, the Air Ministry established a new aircraft...
built a smaller house in the 1850s on Foynes Island in the River Shannon, adjacent to the port town of Foynes, less than 20 km (12 mi) from Curraghchase...
Europe, opening up new air travel routes to South America, Africa, and Asia. Foynes, Ireland and Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador were the terminals for many...
The station was opened by the Waterford and Limerick and Limerick and Foynes railways, then absorbed into the Great Southern and Western Railway. In...
cinqueportliberty.co.uk. E P Dickin's "History of Brightlingsea"—1913, J P Foynes "East Anglia Against the Tricolor--2016; Naval logs and Sea Fencible muster...
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