County Wexford
Ferns Castle was built around 1220, but parliamentarians destroyed the castle and executed most of the local population during Cromwell's rampage through…
Must-see attractions in Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
Founded in 1204, this was once Ireland's largest Cistercian abbey, and is still very much a working parish church. In the grounds stand two Celtic high…
Wexford Town
The Bull Ring is a small, open square in the city centre that gets its name from having been used as a venue for bull baiting in medieval times. These…
Kilkenny City
The beautiful Butler House gardens are home to an unusual water feature constructed from remnants of the British-built Nelson's Pillar, blown up by…
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
About 3km north of Thomastown, east of the R448, is a small, ruined 13th-century church and Norman tower, signposted 50m off the road. The church contains…
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
Built by William Marshal on the site of an earlier Norman motte-and-bailey fort, this 13-century castle survived Cromwell's attentions. Much of the…
Kilkenny City
Kilkenny's Tholsel (City Hall) was built in 1761 on the spot where Dame Alice Kyteler’s maid Petronella was burned at the stake in 1324 for witchcraft …
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
One of the tallest round towers in Ireland once dominated this former monastery, but it was destroyed early in the 18th century by a farmer worried that…
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
This elegant Regency Gothic cathedral dating from 1833 was the brainchild of Bishop James Doyle, a staunch supporter of Catholic emancipation. On the…
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
This brewery produces the popular O'Hara's brand beers. Its award-winning Irish Stout bursts with flavour and certainly holds its own against that other…
Kilkenny City
This is the only gate from the old Norman city walls still standing, albeit with the help of metal bracing these days. Crumbling sections of the old walls…
Wexford Town
The only survivor of the six original town gates is the 14th-century Westgate. It was originally a toll gate, and the recesses used by the toll collectors…
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
The former Church of Ireland in the heart of the St Mullins monastic site houses an exhibition on the life of St Moling, and on the history of the…
Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow & Kilkenny
This 5000-year-old granite portal dolmen (tomb chamber) is one of Ireland's most famous prehistoric monuments, sporting the largest capstone in Europe (it…
County Wexford
Restored to its original glory (check out the star-spangled roof), this dazzling Roman Catholic cathedral (1846) was designed by Augustus Pugin, the…
County Waterford
This small, well-presented museum covers maritime heritage (with relics from shipwrecks), Famine history, local personalities and various other titbits,…
County Waterford
On the eastern side of Ardmore village by the cliff walk are the ruins of St Declan's Church and St Declan's Well, a sacred spring believed to cure…
County Wexford
Pretty Ballyhack village is 5.5km northwest of Duncannon. It’s dominated by the 15th-century Ballyhack Castle, a Knights Hospitallers tower house…
Wexford Town
Participants in the 1798 Rising used the Bull Ring as an open-air armaments factory; they're commemorated here by the Lone Pikeman statue.
County Waterford
Housed in a whitewashed, black-trimmed stone building dating from the 17th century, these light, airy galleries showcase contemporary art by local artists.
Kilkenny City
This substantial tower house, dating from around 1500, once formed part of the city's defences, protecting the approach from the east.
County Waterford
In the middle of Waterford's waterfront stands an 1860s clock tower, a famous local landmark.
County Waterford
Beach Tower, at the top of Jenkin's Lane, is a crumbling fragment of the old city wall.
County Waterford
Waterford's stately City Hall (1788) was designed by local architect John Roberts.
