Curracloe () is a village in County Wexford, a few miles northeast of the town of

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/N1 ...

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. It lies on the R742

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at the junction with R743, and is linked to the long and sandy Curracloe Strand (beach) by the short R743 road, to the east. Curracloe sees an influx of holiday travellers every summer, who stay in bed & breakfast inns, mobile homes and caravan parks.

Beach

Ballinesker Beach and Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, were used for the filming of the D-Day sequence in ''

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'', due to similarity to

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. Filming began 27 June 1997, and lasted for two months. The village of Curracloe lacked three-phase electricity but when the film company decided to film there, it was connected. Curracloe Strand was also used for the Irish beach scene in the movie ''

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''.

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{{reflist Towns and villages in County Wexford Beaches of County Wexford

Beach

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