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ACTIVITIES & PLACES TO VISIT
Golf
With six championship courses, County Wexford is a golfer's paradise.
The wonderful natural terrain around our coastline provides superb links
and parkland courses.
The golf courses listed below are all 18 hole:
Enniscorthy
Golf Club - Telephone 054-33191
Rosslare
Golf Club - Telephone 053-9132203
St.
Helen's Bay Golf Resort - Telephone. 053-9133234
Wexford
Golf Club - Telephone 053-9142238
Seafield
Golf and Country Club - Telephone 055-24777
Courtown
Gold Club - Telephone 055-25166 |
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Angling
It is easy to reach the rich fishing grounds around Wexford from Maple
Lodge, with over 200 km of coastline, it is one of our greatest resources.
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.
Check out Kilmore Quay for good restaurants, sea trips, and good pubs. |
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Equestrian
With horse riding being such a popular leisure activity in Wexford, it's
no wonder that we have
such a selection of excellent equestrian centres to choose from.
As well as leisure
riding, guests can avail of quality-approved instruction for riders of
all standards, along with cross-country, show jumping and dressage.
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Wexford
Racecourse
Enjoy an exciting days racing at Wexford Racecourse.
Meetings (Day and Evening) are held regularly throughout the year.
The Hooves 'n' Grooves Festival
is held at the Racecourse in August.
Enjoy two days' of racing and three days' of music and fun. |
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Johnstown Castle
The harmony between great Victorian revival castles and their surrounding
ornamental grounds is rarely seen to such perfection as at Johnstown Castle.
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
between 1810 and 1855 and incorporating part of a more ancient castle.
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Hook
Lighthouse
Visit one of the Oldest Operational Lighthouses in the World.
Hook Head, wild and elemental, tranquil and serene, in its serenity hides
the treachery which bewaits unsuspecting mariners.
Little wonder that William Marshall earl of Pembrokeshire undertook the
building of the lighthouse in the early 13th century as a navigational aid to guide his ships into Waterford
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Irish
National Heritage Park
The Irish National Heritage Park depicts many settlements in Ireland from
7000 BC to the arrival of the Norman's in the 12th century.
Stroll through the park with it's homesteads, places of ritual, burial
modes with
long forgotten remains.
Your sense 's come alive with sights and sounds stretching back 900 years. |
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Dunbrody
Famine Ship
The original Dunbrody was a three-masted barque built in Quebec, Canada,
for the Graves family of New Ross, Co. Wexford in 1845.
She carried many emigrants to the new world from 1845-1870.
The Dunbrody Project involved the construction of a full scale sea-going
replica.
The ship was finished in early 2001 and is now open to visitors at the
quayside in New Ross. |
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Wexford
Festival Opera
The annual Wexford Festival Opera is the jewel in the crown of Ireland's
arts programme, an event of truly international importance which marks the county out as a major venue for
the performing arts.
For opera lovers, its a unique chance to see full stagings of lesser-known
works by great composers, plus a wide programme of recitals, concerts and lectures. |
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The John F.
Kennedy Arboretum
The John F. Kennedy Arboretum, on 252 hectares contains over 4,500 types
of trees and shrubs,
200 forest plots, rhododendrons, dwarf conifers, lake, viewing point, tea room and
visitor centre with
an audio-visual show. |
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Wexford
Wildlife Reserve
Wexford is widely known as the best county in Ireland for bird watching.
This is a well-equipped visitor centre and has many exhibitions and an
informative audio visual show.
The park is sign-posted just outside Wexford town on the R741 between
Ferrybank and Castlebridge. |
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