walks wexford

Why not take some time to explore the walk through the Courtown Woods... This is a lovely area of tracks and trails, and you can take a circular route from Courtown via the woods and back by the road known as the coastal road. In all, this covers about 2.5 miles. Another scenic trip to make is to visit Tara Hill. Here you will have the most breathtaking views of the coastline as far south as Courtown....

Shielbaggan Outdoor Education centre is run under the auspices of County Wexford Vocational Education Committee. The range of activities on offer to residents include canoeing, sailing, snorkeling, board sailing, dinghy sailing orienteering, rock climbing, hill walking,archery, horse riding, bird watching and camp craft.

Group Activity Holidays are a speciality in the summer. Each participant must be water confident for water based activities and have excellent health. Outdoor Education...

A delightful 800 metres nature trail through the seashore sand dunes supported by a informative and colourful 20 page booklet available free of charge from the County Council and other outlets....

Departs from the Kennedy Centre. North Quay....

Departs from opposite the Castle. Available in English and French. Conducted coach visits to Vinegar Hill are also available with prior arrangement....

Sli Charman, The Wexford Coastal Path, was established in 1993 by Wexford Co. Council. An tSli (The Path) extends for 221 kilometres from Kilmichael Point in the North East cormer of Co. Wexford to Ballyhack, a picturesque village in the south West of our county. Along the way you will encounter sandy beaches, eroding clay cliffs, durable rocky headlands, areas of exceptional natural beauty and interest, historic towns and monuments. Curracloe, Wexford and Ireland's best golden beach stretches...

The journey to Wexford by road or river has many pleasant views, and some bends of the river are particularly fine. The last stages lie through the Barony of Shelmalier, which has always had a population of net-fishermen and fowlers. The'bold Shelmalier' with his long barrelled duck gun was a formidable marksman in the Wexford insurgent army. He is commemorated in may ballads. West of Enniscorthy are the Blackstairs Mountains (highest point Mount Leinster, 2,610 feet), which form par...