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Hook Lighthouse
Hook Head
One of the oldest lighthouses in Europe. Guided tours are available along with a craft shop and restaurant. |
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Dunbrody Abbey
Campile
Founded in 1210 A.D. The Abbey contains a hedge maze, pitch and putt course, craft gallery and gardens. |
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Duncannon Fort
Duncannon
Duncannon Fort has been used in one form or another since the Celtic Iron Age. The present day fortification dates back to 1588. Guided tours are available, coffee shop, art exhibitions and maritime museum, which has been dedicated to the most dangerous coastline off Ireland. |
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The Dunbrody
Emigrant Ship
New Ross
www.dunbrody.com
Take a guided tour
with the captain around a full scale reconstruction
of a 19th Century famine ship of the Three Masted
Barque. The origional having been built in Quebec
in 1845 for the Graves family of New Ross.
See for yourself the
living quarters of those who sold their belongings
and travelled to America to start a new life.
Review the on board computer
database of ships records, which lists over
two million individual passengers. |
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Waterford Crystal
Waterford
Visit the working factory of the world's finest crystal. Watch people at work making lumps of red hot molten crystal into various items, which will later be sold. . Visit the furnaces, cutting and engraving areas and view some of the individual sports tropheys made over the years. |
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Tintern Abbey
Saltmills
This Cistercian Abbey was built after Tintern Major Abbey in Wales in 1200 A.D. Guided tours and restaurant |
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Fethard Castle
Fethard-on-Sea
The original castle was built around 1200 A.D. by the Normans. The present one was erected by the Sutton family between teh 14th and 16th century. |
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Martello Tower
Fethard-on-Sea
The tower is situated on the high headland of Baginbun, one of the three towers in the area erected in 1804 against the threat of attack by Napoleon Bonaparte. |
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