My great grandfather is Williams James Goble.
I have a photo of him in Uniform with his family.
My grandmother (one of his children) was born in Ballymacaw in 1902 whilst he was stationed in the area from the U.K.
I am planning a trip to England in August 2024 and was wondering if I came over to Ballymawcaw is their anything that would relate to their time there that I would be able to see.
There are 2 townlands in Ireland named Ballymacaw, one in Co Cork and the other in Co Waterford. Your family appear to have lived in the Waterford one. Here’s a birth for a Jane Goble on 20.10.1900 at Ballymacaw. I note that William James Goble served in the Coastguard.
Here’s the household in the 1901 census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Waterford/Rathmoylan/Ballymacaw/1766891/
According to the house & building return their house had 3 windows at the front and 3 rooms inside. It was right next door to the Coastguard station. They are numbered 26 & 27 respectively on the census but those were the enumerator’s private numbering system and bear no relation to any street numbers that might exist today. According to this link the coastguard cottages are still there up on the cliff and look lovely (post dated 20.3.2021):
https://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=5266
Photo of the cottages here:
https://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/photogallery.php?photo_id=33
One of the cottages was up for sale in 2011 for €250,000. They were reportedly built in the 1880s so same buildings as your ancestor served in, though they will have been modernised over the years I am sure.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/arid-20156005.html
By 1905 the family was stationed in Ballinacourty, near Dungarvan:
And in 1907 they were at Rock Island, Co Cork:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur…
1911 census the family has moved again, to Kilhile in Co. Wexford. Note Married 16 years. 6 children born, all still alive.:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Ballyhack/Kilhile/688919/
It's difficult to say whether you'll find any strands game information there or not