Qualla: County Wexford

County Wexford: Introduction

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Each winter, roughly one third of the world's population of Greenland white-fronted geese descends on the muddy flats of the North Slob, just outside Wexford town. Ten thousand birds, give or take, fly down from Ice-shrouded breeding grounds in western Greenland and spend the dark months here on the slob lands at the edge of Wexford Harbour. They picked this stretch of County Wexford because it is the warmest, sunniest, and gentlest corner of Ireland. The locals have a name for it: the Sunny Southeast.

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County Wexford: Sunny Southeast

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Atlantic warms Wexford with the North Atlantic Drift and shelters it from the rougher Atlantic weather that batters the western counties. January temperatures average around 4 degrees, July ones reach the high teens. Snow is rare on the coast - the Saltees, two limestone isla...

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County Wexford: Rebellion Country

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Wexford is haunted by 1798. The rising erupted here with particular ferocity, led by men like Father John Murphy at Boolavogue and the United Irishman Bagenal Harvey. Pikes from that rebellion are still on display at the County Carlow Military Museum. The rebels seized Wexford to...

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County Wexford: Hook, Saltee, Curracloe

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hook Head lighthouse, on the long thin peninsula that ends in the cliffs of Hook Head, has been working in some form since the 12th century - one of the oldest operational lighthouses in the world. The lonely beach at Curracloe is where Steven Spielberg filmed the opening assault...

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County Wexford: Hurlers and Operatic Tenors

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Wexford has won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship six times, most recently in 1996, beating Limerick in the final. Hurling matters here in the way the strawberry queen matters in Enniscorthy. So does opera. Since 1951 the Wexford Festival Opera has been bringing obscure...

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County Wexford: Carnsore and Other Battles Won

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In the late 1970s the Irish government proposed building a nuclear power plant on Carnsore Point, the windswept southeast corner of the county. Protest concerts at Carnsore - Christy Moore, Donovan, Clannad - drew tens of thousands in 1978 and 1979 and helped sink the plan. The p...

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