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Slade

An Slaod

A university field survey connects Slade’s surviving industrial buildings with Welsh enterprise, imported fuel and Cheshire salt.

Recorded locationSlade52.13235° N · 6.91229° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • An Slaod · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Slade · English · main form

Place & story

People & connections

William Mansel’s enterprise

The University of Ulster’s Archaeology of Irish Salt project identifies William Mansel as the Welsh entrepreneur who rented Slade’s saltworks. His family had connections with salt making in south Wales. Coal already reached this coast for the Hook lighthouse, providing an established supply route for the fuel-intensive industry. [2]

Salt across the Irish Sea

The project records Cheshire rock salt being imported during the eighteenth century. After refining at Slade, salt was smuggled back into Britain, particularly Somerset. The works appear to have declined towards the century’s end; the survey notes their depiction as ruins on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map. [2]

Vaults, corridors and a possible pans house

Field inspection identified corbelled vaults linked by east–west corridors, extending approximately sixty metres, with local limestone used in the building and floor slabs. A circular structure on the south side was interpreted cautiously: it might have been another pans house or a windmill base associated with pumping seawater. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Wexford
Barony
Shelburne
Civil parish
Hook
Coordinates
52.13235, -6.91229
Mapped area
1 km²
Logainm ID
1166698 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Slade. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Slade: seventeenth-century salt production on the Hook, 12 December 2014 · Archaeology of Irish Salt project, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Ulster
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.