Colmán

Arthurstown is named after Saint Colman (Colmán in Irish), one of several Early Christian Irish saints venerated in the 6th and 7th centuries. The townland of Coleman, in which Arthurstown sits, reflects this ecclesiastical etymology. Located on the eastern shore of Waterford Harbour in southwest County Wexford, Arthurstown occupied a strategically significant position during the medieval and e...