New Ross Street Focus Blog

New Ross Street Focus Blog

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE WONDERS ON YOUR DOORSTEP   A lick of paint and the artist’s eye have transformed our town over the past year. Many buildings, walls and gables have given up their ugly duckling personas to emerge as swans emphasising a part of our heritage...

Passage East Car Ferry

Passage East Car Ferry

Passage East Car FerryAbout The Passage East Ferry in operation since 1982 offers a scenic shortcut joins the quaint fishing villages of Passage East, Co. Waterford and Ballyhack, Co Wexford. As you descend into the River Suir Valley to the Passage East Ferry, you are...

Solas Croí Eco Spa – Brandon House

Solas Croí Eco Spa – Brandon House

Solas Croí Eco Spa - Brandon HouseAbout The Leisure Centre and Solas Croí Spa offer all of the facilities for a relaxing short break or a long leisurely getaway. The Leisure Centre has a 20-metre Swimming Pool, Sauna, Jacuzzi, Steam Room & Hydrotherapy Grotto. The...

Carnivan Beach

Carnivan Beach

Carnivan BeachAbout Carnivan Beach is a long sandy beach with rock pools at low tide. Beautiful views and is a popular surfing spot. With a surf school at the beach that provide lessons and equipment for hire.  Location Address: John's Hill, County Wexford

Booley Bay Beach

Booley Bay Beach

Booley Bay BeachAbout Booley Bay is a small beach that you will pass on route to the Hook Lighthouse. Located just next to another beautiful slightly smaller beach of Dollar Bay. The secluded beach has good space for Parking on the Road down to the Beach. Booley Bay...

Hook Lighthouse

Hook Lighthouse

Hook LighthouseAbout Built by William Marshall over 800 years ago, Hook Lighthouse is the oldest operational lighthouse in the world. Embark on a tour of the impressive tower and hear the histories of the Wexford coast. Explore the surroundings and stop off in their...

Walking Tours

Walking Tours

Walking Tours - New Ross Street Focus About The aim of the New Ross Street Focus is to promote the history of New Ross. History and heritage are hiding in plain sight on the streets of New Ross. We have installed 18 plaques with historical facts on significant...

Johnstown Castle

Johnstown Castle

Johnstown CastleAbout Explore painstakingly restored rooms of Johnstown Castle Estate, where features including crystal chandeliers, exquisite wood panelling, and Gothic arched windows give you a powerful sense of times past.Learn what life was like ‘below stairs’ for...

Duncannon Fort

Duncannon Fort

Duncannon FortAbout Duncannon Fort is an impressive presentation of a bastioned fortress perched on the side of the stunning Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, part of Ireland’s Ancient East. This historic structure has gathered countless intriguing and awe-inspiring...

Dunbrody Abbey

Dunbrody Abbey

Dunbrody AbbeyAbout Dunbrody Abbey was founded in 1170 on the instructions of Strongbow, by Herve de Montmorency (his uncle), after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It was completed circa 1220, but additions may have continued for some time. Herve de Montmorency made a...

Secret Valley’s Halloween Fall Festival

Secret Valley’s Halloween Fall Festival

First Look at Secret Valley's Halloween Fall Festival ---- A special pumpkin patch and Witches’ Village has just been set up especially for spooky season. Clonroche' Ann O'Connor and her fantastic team have put an incredible effort into planning a new Pumpkin Farm and...

Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey

Tintern AbbeyAbout This Cistercian monastery was founded c. 1200 by William, Earl Marshal on lands held through his marriage to the Irish heiress, Isabella de Clare. This abbey founded as a daughter-house of Tintern Major in Wales is often referred to as Tintern de...

Duncannon Beach

Duncannon Beach

Duncannon BeachAbout On the Hook Peninsula, you can find a beach a day for a fortnight. If you’re looking for canoeing, windsurfing, snorkelling, scuba diving, fishing, swimming or just relaxing in the sun, there is always a sheltered cove just waiting for you....

Dunbrody Maze

Dunbrody Maze

Dunbrody MazeAbout Next to the Abbey is Dunbrody Castle, and on this site also, lies a visitor centre opened by the Earl of Belfast, only son of the 7th Marquess of Donegall. The Castle garden is the resting-place for an intricate yew hedge maze. Made with 1,500 yew...

Dollar Bay Beach

Dollar Bay Beach

Dollar BayAbout Dollar Bay Beach is a small beach that you will pass on route to the Hook Lighthouse. Located just next to another beautiful slightly larger beach of Booley Bay. Surrounded by high rocky cliffs and green fields make this a really picturesque setting....

John F Kennedy Arboretum

John F Kennedy Arboretum

John F Kennedy Arboretum & SlievecoilltiaAbout The John F. Kennedy Arboretum is dedicated to the memory of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It consists of 623 acres including 5,000 types of trees and shrubs planted in botanical sequence, 200 forest plots,...

Abbey Par 3

Abbey Par 3

Abbey Par 3About Abbey Par 3 Golf near Fethard-on-Sea in County Wexford is 40 acres of well groomed parkland. 18 holes with sand bunkers, water hazzards and challenging greens maintained to the highest standard will test your skills. The course is open from dawn to...

Lacken Hill Trail

Lacken Hill Trail

Lacken HillAbout Lacken Hillside Trail – This walk leads to the Forge Crossroads where stands a commemorative stone outlining the history of Denn’s forge where pikes were made prior to the Battle of Ross. Follow the blue arrows along the country road to the kissing...

The Apex

The Apex

The ApexAbout One of Irelands most notable architectural designs of the last ten years and a booming business is local gym and swimming pool The Apex. This leisure facility was opened in 2013 and has proven to be a huge success and invaluable service to the people of...

Slievecoilltia

Slievecoilltia

SlievecoilltiaAbout Slievecoilltia a small mountain outside of New Ross is believed to have a significant connection with Irish mythology, the 275-metre ascent is nothing short of spectacular, with a breathtaking view from the top you can see the whole of Wexford on a...

Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience

Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience

Dunbrody Famine Ship ExperienceAbout Dunbrody Famine Ship is one of the premier tourist attractions in the South East of Ireland. Centred on an authentic reproduction of an 1840’s emigrant vessel, it provides a world-class interpretation of the famine emigrant...

The Barrow Princess

The Barrow Princess

The Barrow PrincessAbout Sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery in Ireland. Departing from New Ross and Waterford marinas, the Barrow Princess cruises along the river between the two ports via the confluence of the three rivers at Cheekpoint....