Above : View Of Wexford Town

Wexford

Brief Description

Founded by the Vikings the town’s original name was Norse Waesfjord. St Doologue’s Church was formally a Viking church of 1035. Selsker Abbey, now a ruin was an Augustinian foundation in which the first Anglo-Irish treaty was signed in 1169. Oscar Wilde’s mother “Speranza” was born in the town as was her cousin Sir Robert McClure who discovered the North-West Passage.

Local Area attractions

Fishing and boating available in the harbour. Maritime Museum in disused lightship. Famed Opera Festival in October each year. Bird watching on Saltee Islands.

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Dublin

Brief Description

The Capital and Largest city, it sits on a splendid bay at the mouth of the River Liffey. The Wicklow Mountains rise from its southern suburbs. It is noted, inter alia, for writers, Georgian architecture, witty repartee and the production of Guinness.

Since its beginning as an ecclesiastical settlement it has in turn been a key Viking raiding and trading base, a Norman stronghold, the second city of the British Empire and today capital of an independent State.

Dublin’s writers include Richard Brinsley Sheriden, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats, James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Jonathan Swift and Brendan Behan to name but some.

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Above : Enniskillen Castle In Enniskillen

Enniskillen

Brief Description

Island town standing on the neck between Upper and Lower Lough Erne. St MacCartan’s Cathedral built in 1841. Portora Royal School attended by Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and other famous pupils.

Local Area attractions

Museums of two famous regiments – Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Inniskilling Dragoons.

Nearby is the National Trust property at Castle Coole. Neo-classical house, the 1790 masterpiece of James Wyatt.

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