FISHGUARD (Abergwaun), market town, urban district and packet station, north coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, near the mouth of the river Gwaun. Pop. (1931) 2,963. The present town is perched high above a smaller harbour-village on an inlet on the south side of the bay. The importance of Fishguard is due to the local fisheries and the excellence of its harbour. Local interest centres around the attempted landing by General Tate, an Irish-American adventurer, with French soldiers in 1797. His force soon capitulated to the local militias. The G.W.R. company built at great expense a breakwater across the outer end of the bay in the hope of using the harbour for ocean liners. A passenger and goods service with Rosslare on the opposite Irish coast has been maintained since 1906. Trans-atlantic liners called in 1908 to embark and disembark mails and passengers, but this soon ceased owing to difficulties of approach in rough or misty weather. Goodwick, in the parish of Llanwnda, situated near the break water, grew while the harbour was being built.