Here at the National Heritage Park you can find out how the Celts, the Normans and the Vikings once lived. From ring forts and campsites, to the crannog here, there's 35 acres of this heritage trail to explore.
The park is located just 2km outside of Wexford town on 35 acres of woodland. The park takes you on a timeline through 9,000 years of Irish history with reconstructions of all aspects of Irish life. There's also a restaurant and a craft shop.
"We're quite big, about 35 acres altogether and we're a history park and we basically cover Irish history from the Stone Age from the Mesolithic straight up through to the invasion of the Normans in the 12th century. We've 13 exhibits, altogether and as I said, on about 35 acres so you'll be walking around for about a mile, give or take. So the biggest sights, I suppose impress people more than anybody else, when the first large site they come across is the ring fort, about five or six sites in, which is a fairly big, impressive palisade, so that seems to catch people's attention and then we move down the hill slightly and find yourself in the monastery and it's to-scale, small monastery from about the 9th or 10th century. So that's very impressive, most of the stone. And then the site we're on at the moment here, crannog, because it's out in the middle of a lake, very impressive as well. And our last site, our second last site of the tour which is the Viking house because it's right on the edge of the Slaney and it's, you know, very nice views of the Slaney from there.
Here at the National Heritage Park, you can find out how the Clets, the Normans and the Vikings once lived from ring forts and campsites to the chrono here. There’s 35 acres of this Heritage Trail to explore. The park is located just 2 kilometers outside Wexford town on 35 acres of woodland. The park takes you on a timeline through 9,000 years of Irish history with reconstructions of all aspects of Irish life. There’s also a restaurant and a craft shop. « We’re quite big, we’re about 35 acres altogether and we run a history park and we basically cover Irish history from the Stone Age from the Mesolithic straight up through to the invasion of the Normans in the 12th century. We’ve 13 exhibits altogether and as I said on them at 35 acres so you’ll be walking around for about a mile we’re taking. Some of the biggest sites I suppose impressed people more than anybody else and the first large sites and come across the ring fort have about five or six sites in which is a fairly impressive mo