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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 ...
Wexford's early- and mid- 18th-century history is less frequently remembered than later periods, however, the impact of this period is evident from the architectural fabric of the town such as the gabled Dutch Billy houses such as on Main Street. [9] [10]
County Wexford (Irish: Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region.Named after the town of Wexford, it was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella (Uí Ceinnsealaigh), whose capital was Ferns.
The siege of Wexford took place in early May 1169 and was the first major clash of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.The town was besieged by a combined force of Normans under Robert Fitz-Stephen and soldiers loyal to Diarmait mac Murchadha.
Although the killings at Drogheda and Wexford were on a larger scale, Irish Catholics captured in England and Scotland, or taken at sea, were routinely executed throughout the war, including Philiphaugh in 1645, and Dunaverty in 1647. For various reasons, attitudes had noticeably hardened since the end of the First English Civil War in 1646.
In 1690 it hosted two kings: King James II sailed from Duncannon to Kinsale on 3 July, and thence to France, while King William III stayed at the Fort in September 1690 when bad weather delayed his return to England. [6] The site where James' boat departed bears the name "King James' Hole." A lighthouse was constructed in 1774 and remains in use.
Vinegar Hill – view from Enniscorthy. Vinegar Hill (Cnoc Fhiodh na gCaor in Irish which translates as 'hill of the berry-tree'), a pudding-shaped hill overlooking the town, was the largest camp and headquarters of the rebels of 1798 who controlled County Wexford for thirty days against vastly superior forces, before their defeat on 21 June.
Tintern Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland.. The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in c.1200 by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was caught in a storm nearby. [1]