Upper Georges Street,
Wexford. Telephone : 053 9143474
Mobile : 087 6483598
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Activities
LEISUREMAX
- Wexford
New Family Entertainment Centre
Telephone 053 9122860
Tenpin Bowling, Game Zone, Play Centre, American Style Diner, Drive Thru,
Indoor Adventure
Playground, 5 a side Pitch, Crafts House, Purple & Gold Pet Centre, Beauty
Salon
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Ireland's
first all digital cinema!
Open daily from 2pm and from 12 noon Saturday and Sunday.
Free on-site car parking.
All screens have high backed luxury stadium seating in all
auditoria giving a perfect view from every seat.
Infra-red loop system in all screens. |
ANGLING
Your
ideal destination for a fishing holiday - situated along
some of the most beautiful coastline in Ireland.
It is easy to reach the rich fishing grounds around Wexford from St George
Guest House, with over 200 km of coastline, it is one
of our greatest resources.
Shore angling is also a very popular pastime among the locals who can
direct you the best locations.
Wexford County possesses an abundance of clean rivers and lakes to cater
for the coarse and game angler; the Rivers Barrow
and Slaney are the two largest rivers |
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WEXFORD
BOAT TRIPS & SEAL COLONY
Boat trips around Wexford Harbour, and Seal Watching Tours out to Raven
Point are provided from the
quayside, providing a mix of adrenaline and nature. |
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LADY'S ISLAND, CARNE
With
the ruins of a Norman Castle built in
1237 and a 15th Century Augustinian Priory,
is a national place of pilgrimage.
LADY'S
ISLAND LAKE
Home of
Ireland's largest breeding tern
colony, it is a Special Protection Area
and a
refuge for fauna. |
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IRISH
NATIONAL HERITAGE PARK
Telephone
: 053
9120733
Wexford's premier visitor attraction, the Irish
National Heritage Park demonstrates mans' settlement in
Ireland from 7000 B.C. to the arrival of the Normans in the 12th Century.
Your senses come alive with sights and
sounds stretching back almost 8600 years.
Restaurant, Craft Shop, Multi-language Audio
Visual, Guided Tours. |
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SALTEE
ISLANDS ~ off Kilmore Quay
Two
large granite outcrops sustain wonderful
wildlife and scenery, including grey seals,
and good angling.
These islands are bird
sanctuaries of international repute,
supporting eleven species of breeding
seabirds in the summer. |
THE
HISTORIC MEDIEVAL WALLED TOWN OF WEXFORD
With
narrow streets running down to the
quay, Wexford town has seen Vikings and Normans and has was sacked by Cromwell's
army. It was
also a centre in the 1798 rebellion
- there is so
much to see and do.
Walking tours available. |
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PASSAGE
EAST CAR FERRY
Telephone
: 051 382480 / 382488
The short cut between Co. Wexford and
Co. Waterford crossing the Suir Estuary by
drive-on, drive-off car ferry from Passage
East to Ballyhack.
Continuous service with more than 130
crossings daily, no reservations necessary. |
WEXFORD
WILDFOWL RESERVE
Telephone
: 053
9123129
Over one third of the world's population of Greenland
White-fronted geese spend the winter on the Wexford Slobs.
Visitor
Centre, Exhibitions and Viewing Tower. |
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WEXFORD
COUNTY MUSEUM
Telephone
: 053 9235926
Dating back
to 1205, Enniscorthy Castle is home to Wexford County Museum,
featuring an extraordinary collection of artefacts
related to
1798 Rising and the 1916 Easter Rising, significant episodes
of Wexford's tumultuous past. Including ecclesiastical, maritime, agricultural and
industrial history. |
NATIONAL
1798 VISITOR CENTRE
Millpark Road,
Enniscorthy. Telephone : 053 9237596
The visitor centre traces the Rebellion of 1798 in County Wexford,
together with events as they happened in
Europe, the United States and Australia.
An audio-visual display on a curved screen simulates the battle of nearby
Vinegar Hill. |
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JOHNSTOWN
CASTLE GARDENS
Telephone
: 053
9142888
The
harmony between great Victorian revival castles and their
surrounding ornamental grounds is rarely seen to such
perfection as at Johnstown.
The mature woodlands and lakes of this demesne provide the
perfect setting for this turreted, battlemented and
machicolated castle of gleaming silver-grey ashlar, built for
the Grogan-Morgan family between 1810 and 1855 and
incorporating part of a more ancient castle. |
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IRISH AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM - Johnstown Castle
Features
include a Famine Exhibition which provides information on the
potato famine during the 1840's.
Items on display here include tools and machinery traditionally used in
farming as well as farmhouse furniture. |
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HOOK
LIGHTHOUSE
Visit one of the oldest working lighthouses in the world,
hear the story of lightkeeping, a story of constancy and
watchfulness.
The former keepers' houses now play host to
our first class cafe
and craft shop. By Hook or by Crooke you will be enthralled. |
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