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Wexford (Irish: Loch Garman [ˌl̪ˠɔx ˈɡaɾˠəmˠən̪ˠ]; [2] archaic Yola: Weiseforthe) [3] is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour , the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland .
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The "Pikeman" statue, a 1798 Rebellion memorial in Wexford town. A Wexford county flag has been "added" to the statue; 1798 and the rebel tradition form an important part of Wexford identity. [41] [42] Since 1951, an opera festival, Wexford Festival Opera, takes place every year in the Theatre Royal in Wexford town and runs for several weeks. [43]
There was an earlier church on the site: it was here in 1169 that Diarmait Mac Murchada signed the first Anglo-Irish peace treaty. [4] The leading Norman commander Raymond FitzGerald, (nicknamed Le Gros) and his wife Basila de Clare, sister of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (nicknamed Strongbow), are said to have been married at Selskar in 1174.
This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,384 townlands in County Wexford, Ireland. [1] [2] ... Wexford Fethard: Town: Shelburne: Fethard: New Ross Fethard: 336 ...
Bree Portal tomb. Evidence of early human habitation of County Wexford is widespread. [2]Ireland was inhabited sometime shortly after the ending of the last Ice Age, approximately 10,000 – 8000 BC [3] Conservative estimates place the arrival of the first humans in County Wexford as occurring between 5000 BC – 3000 BC, referred to as the Mesolithic period in Ireland, [4] though they may ...
Isabel de Clare, suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke and Striguil (c. 1172 – 11 March 1220), was an Anglo-Norman and Irish noblewoman descended from Aoife Macmurrough and Richard de Clare and one of the wealthiest heiresses in Wales and Ireland. [1]