Rugby Tours To Wexford

Wexford
Wexford

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Rugby Tours to Wexford is a town in southeast Ireland, at the mouth of the River Slaney.

It’s known for its medieval lanes and the opera festival held in the modern National Opera House.

West Gate Heritage Tower is a restored 13th-century tollgate. It’s next to the old town walls and ruined 12th-century Selskar Abbey.

The Bullring Market Place, once a bull-baiting site, has a statue marking the 1798 Rebellion against British rule.

The town was founded by the Vikings in about 800 AD.

They named it Veisajjoror, meaning “inlet of the mud flats”, and the name has changed only slightly into its present form.

Wexford has many rugby clubs in its county all within easy distance for travelling.

Wexford itself, New Ross, Gorey and Enniscorty are all in the rugby family and strong rugby playing clubs.

No shortage of a fixture in Wexford.

Tour Information

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Our Popular Inclusions for a Rugby Tour to Wexford

Attend a rugby training session with a top coach from Leinster Rugby.
Watch a Guinness Pro14 fixture.
Visit the replica Famine Ship and listen to the stories of our exodus from this land.
Take a Pony Trek along one of the many sandy beaches.
Go on Captain Jacks Harbour Thrills Boat Trips and ride the waves.
Come to the Irish National Heritage Park, Irish life from Stone Age to the Norman era.
Enjoy the thrills of Quad Attack Adventure Centre race your team mates see who’s the best, great team bonding.
Climb the worlds oldest working lighthouse that’s Hook Lighthouse 800 years old.
Walk around Selskar Abbey a 12^th century Monastery on a guided tour.
Ghost Hunting at Loftus Hall, Ireland’s Most haunted House.
Guard the battlements at Duncannon Fort.

Rugby Training

Attend an Intensive rugby training session with coaches from Leinster Rugby to help you improve your game and player’s skills.

The sessions here in Leinster are very good and a lot of teams comment on how good they are.

Of course it’s all down to the coach giving the session and the staff that do them are very good indeed.

Teams take on a lot what is taught to them and this is shown in their results when they get home.

It’s all down to our training sessions and the coaches we provide.

Beautiful Beaches

Take a Pony Trek along one of the many sandy beaches.

Courtown, Morriscastle, Ballinesker, Curracloe and more.

Steven Spielberg famously filmed the opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan here.

Also there’s a unique 10km looped walk circling the Raven Point Nature Reserve just before Wexford Harbour.

These beaches are so popular with the locals.

Visitors from surrounding inland counties travel too wexford for the sand and sea.

A real must stay place are the wexford beaches so come on down.

Dunbrody Famine Ship

The Dunbrody Famine Ship is a spectacular feature of the New Ross quayside.

There are some tourist attractions that can’t be missed. Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience In New Ross, Co. Wexford is one of them.

Your guide will tell you the history of the boat and what it was like to sail across to America. Life on board was not a pretty one.

Our American guests enjoy this tour, for many of them this is where their ancestors probably sailed from. For them, it is a humble experience.

Hook Lighthouse

Explore the oldest operational lighthouse in the world.

Voted one of Ireland’s favourite attractions, Hook Lighthouse in Wexford is truly one of a kind.

Purpose built 800 years ago by the Knight William Marshal, take a step back in time. Enjoy a guided tour hearing tales of medieval times and life as a light keeper.

If you are feeling fit climb to the top for a spectacular view of Ireland’s coast line.

Irish Rugby Tours to Wexford - Hook Head Lightouse

Loftus Hall

Loftus Hall is one spooky house.

Originally built in 1170 by a Norman knight called Raymond Le Gros.

In 1350 around the Black Death it became known as Redmond Hall after Le Gros changed his name to Redmond.

Its had many owners and the present owners are now preserving the building for many years to come.

Loftus Hall is Ireland’s most haunted house. Here you will be given a guided tour around the property where you will learn all about the dark side of the house.

For those feeling really brave there is a lockdown at night where you be given a tour with the lights on then off.

You will be left on your own for the night until the early hours of the following day.

Enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand.

Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey is located in New Ross in County Wexford.

The abbey was founded by the Earl of Pembroke in 1200 A.D.

Legend says that when the Earl of Pembroke set sail on his voyage he reached a deadly storm which caused the boat to be shipwrecked, he then vowed to establish an abbey if he reached land safely.

The abbey was then colonised by monks at the Cistercian abbey at Tintern in Wales.

The Colclough family have been a huge part of the abbey for 100’s of years until 1959.

Since 1959 the abbey has been taken into government care as the last member of the Colclough family left the abbey.

Irish National Heritage Park

The Irish National Heritage Park is around 35 acres and it situated just north of Wexford Town.

This open air museum contains to-scale replicas of 9,000 year old historic features such as ring forts, old dolmens and early Christian Monasteries.

This unique heritage site allows you to take an journey through Pre-Historic Ireland, early Christian Ireland and the age of invasion across nearly 40 acres of woodland.

Explore the historic settlements and buildings and see how Irish settlers lived and fought.

Wexford

Wexford