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Cheekpoint
Sign in to saveCheekpoint () is a village and townland in County Waterford, Ireland, at the confluence of the River Suir and the River Barrow. Located beneath 150-metre-high Minaun Hill, the village has panoramic views of Waterford Harbour, the 650-metre-long Barrow Bridge and Great Island Power Station. Cheekpoint is also surrounded by the Malting Woods which were planted by Cornelius Bolton.
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- Locality
- Cheekpoint
- Region
- Munster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 334
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- Official name
- Pointe na Síge
- Population
- 313
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- Cheekpoint harbour.JPG
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- S683141
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- Pointe na Síge
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Cheekpoint () is a village and townland in County Waterford, Ireland, at the confluence of the River Suir and the River Barrow. Located beneath 150-metre-high Minaun Hill, the village has panoramic views of Waterford Harbour, the 650-metre-long Barrow Bridge and Great Island Power Station. Cheekpoint is also surrounded by the Malting Woods which were planted by Cornelius Bolton.
==Toponymy== The Irish name for Cheekpoint is or perhaps (in English: point of the fairies). It is also claimed to mean "point of the streak". Now it is thought that the name comes from a rock called Carraig na Síge out on the river near the low water mark which shows a trail of foam or streak with the ebbing tide.
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