Discover Tramore
Waterford's beach town: the big strand, the prom and the waltzers
What's On
Upcoming events and things happening in Tramore
SETU Students Day at Tramore Races
Thursday afternoon student race day on Graun Hill, 8 October 2026.
Tramore Christmas Day Swim
RecurringEleven o'clock on Christmas morning on the strand, in aid of St Vincent de Paul.
Tramore St Patrick's Day Parade
Returns annuallyThe town's own 17 March parade, separate from the Waterford city one.
Vitamin Sea Festival
Returns annuallyThree days of swims, tours, food and music on the seafront in June.
Tramore Right Now
Live conditions are not loading right now. Tramore Bay faces south and takes the weather straight in, so check wind direction as well as rain before you plan a day on the strand. The surf schools post conditions daily, and the tide table matters more than the forecast if you are walking out on the Burrow.
🌊 Tides
Tramore Harbour
Heights relative to chart datum
Where To Eat
From fine dining seafood to fish and chips by the harbour
The Pier Restaurant
Wednesday-to-Saturday evening restaurant on Newtown Road. Ring to book.
One the Waterfront
Clifftop dining room above the bay, Thursday to Sunday.
Massimo's
Irish-Italian chipper by the prom, open noon to ten, seven days.
A strand, a spit and a town built to look at both
Tramore sits at the head of its own bay, with a long sand and shingle spit running across the front of it. Behind that spit is the Backstrand, a wide tidal lagoon the National Parks and Wildlife Service records as 3.7km across, and on top of it are the dunes locals call the Burrow. Dunes, saltmarsh and backstrand together are a Special Area of Conservation, which is why the fences and the keep-off signs in the marram are not decoration.
The town itself grew from a fishing village into a resort when the Waterford and Tramore Railway opened in 1853 and ran seven and a quarter miles with no station in between, just a terminus at each end. It carried day trippers down from the city for a hundred and seven years. The last trains ran on 31 December 1960 and the line was lifted, but the habit stuck: Waterford still comes to Tramore for the day, by bus and by car instead.
