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Explore Wexford and Beyond….. Take a short break in Ireland’s Ancient East and visit places fi lled with quirky and memorable experiences. With the maps as your guide and itineraries as your inspiration, discover a region of legends and stories, from ancient times to modern day – a place brimming Leisure Max ….Wexford Quad Biking ….Clonroche Courtown Advenure …. Courtown Secret Valley Wildlife Park …Clonroche with culture, attractions, festivals and fun. Your adventure through Ireland’s Ancient East awaits! Fun and challenging day out fi lled with adventurous Award-winning Secret Valley Wildlife Park is the only Perfect for a wet or dry day, bowling, sumo wresting, Quad Attack in Co. Wexford is exhilarating good fun……. activities! You can choose between High Ropes course, Wildlife Park in the South East of Ireland. Donkeys, Llamas, EXPLORE WEXFORD gladiators, indoor play area, zorb football, gravity tower with Well established as one of the best Quad Biking facilities in Laser Tag, orienteering and much more. Whether you would Alpaca, Ponies and Goats fi ll the paddocks outside. County Wexford zip wire, you could spend hours of fun here. the country. Quad Attack provide adventurous all like to test your sharp shooting skills on our Archery range A purpose-built animal haven, you can meet the Meerkats, weather cross-country driving fun for everybody from 6 or Zip Line down from the Tower; or simply venture in the Corsac foxes, Guinea Pigs, Lizards, Raccoons, Prairie Dogs, & THE SOUTH EAST & the Southeast years upwards. forest with the help of a Orienteering map, our Adventure Tortoise and Lemurs and lots more. Whatever the weather, Gorey Centre is a perfect place to be. you will have a ball discovering Secret Valley. www.leisuremax.ie www.quadattack.ie www.courtownadvenutre.ie www.secretvalley.ie to Dublin Courtown Pirates Cove Ferns Castle N80 to Carlow N11 Kilmuckridge Wells House Enniscorthy Castle Go Paddle! Enniscorthy IOAC (Rosslare) Johnstown Castle Bloomfi eld Farm Equestrian Centre …Enniscorthy Blackwater Open Farm ….Blackwater Activities include High Ropes park – which consists of 2 Blackwater With one of the most comprehensive displays of farming Ideally located 2km from Enniscorthy Town on main N30 to Kilkenny levels of high rope’s 4m and 7m, Jacob’s Ladder and Crate For a fun memorable day for all the family, meet the animals N30 stacking. In all of these activities the participant is Fully har- and rural life in the country, the Irish Agricultural Museum New Ross Road. Fully Insured and Aire approved Riding from pigs, cows, sheep, horses etc, play in the playground or nessed in and supervised by full qualifi ed high ropes staff. and Johnstown Castle Gardens make a wonderful day out School & Trekking. Enjoy riding at Bloomfi eld with our team New Ross N11 indoor soft fun zone, ride the tractors and enjoy a bite to eat Curracloe The other activities that we offer at the IOAC include, a Low for all the family – whatever the weather. The beautifully of friendly, outgoing instructors who are here to offer their Dunbrody Famine Ship in the restaurant. Ropes Challenge Course, Battlezone Archery tag, Airsoft maintained ornamental gardens surrounding the castle ex- knowledge and advice. Heritage Park tend to 40 hectares and feature three lakes, a walled garden The Kennedy Homestead target range, Archery range as well as Kayaking or Raft building on our purpose-built Activity Lake. and a resident family of peacocks. Kennedy Park Tel: 086 374 3557 Wexford www.ioac.ie www.johnstowncastle.ie www.blackwateropenfarm.ie Johnstown Castle to Waterford Rosslare N25 Tintern Abbey Kilmore Loftus Hall Hook Lighthouse Pirates Cove …..Courtown Blackwater Footgolf Course …Blackwater Go Paddle ….Enniscorthy Wells House ….Kilmuckridge Pirates Cove in Courtown Harbour. Adventure Golf takes This course is unique as it’s the fi rst to be built solely for the Slaney Adventure is on our doorstep. Slaney Adventure is Waiting to be explored is Wells House & Gardens, a great intrepid explorers through winding caves, a shipwrecked unusual past time of Footgolf. an established mobile Kayak & Canoe service based in the Victorian House and Gardens in the heart of Wexford. galleon, and a thundering waterfall. You will also fi nd bumper ..while staying at the Riverside Park Hotel & Leisure Club For a 3 or 4 ball game it usually takes up to an hour to play, South East. Wells House has something for all generations to enjoy and boats, a soft play area, bubble rollers and electric kids go with the holes having varying lengths of 40 and 90 yards. share! Woodland fairy walks, archery, falconry, playground The Promenade Enniscorthy Co. Wexford karts, along with 4 bowling lanes. A fun and different afternoon out! and café. Riverside Park Hotel T: 053 92 37800 F: 053 92 37900 E. [email protected] www.riversideparkhotel.com www.piratescove.ie Tel: 0873497201 www.gopaddle.ie www.wellshouse.ie & Leisure Club Wexford Activities 12pDL UPDATED 2019.indd 1 01/07/2019 09:14 Irish National Heritage Park National 1798 Centre ...Enniscorthy Kia Ora Mini Farm Golfi ng in Wexford Loftus Hall ...Hook Head Fr Murphy Centre ….Boolavogue Enniscorthy ….N11 towards Wexford This award Rebellion Centre offers an insight into the birth Kia Ora Mini Farm is an award winning open farm in Gorey, Loftus Hall… the most haunted house in Ireland. Visit Loftus In a tranquil rural setting, this house and farmyard were once Begin an unforgettable journey through ireland’s past at our Wexford is renowned for its golf courses, Enniscorthy, of democracy in Ireland. Meet General Lake, the croppy boy, Co. Wexford, which along with many animals that visitors Hall and take our 45 minute interactive guided tour through home to Fr. Murphy, immortalised in the popular ballad, award winning Heritage Centre. Explore reconstructed historical Bunclody, Wexford, St Helens are some of the golf courses the blacksmith and miles byrne and learn in gruesome detail can pet and hold, has some fantastic attractions such as real the ground fl oor of this abandoned haunted mansion. Hear ‘’Boolavogue’’. Fr Murphy got caught up in the 1798 Rebel- sites depicting life in Ancient Ireland, located on the picturesque we can organise discounts for you. how some 20,000 insurgents faced the might of 10,000 well diggers visitors can operate, a fi re engine ride with fun sing all about the grim, and often gruesome, history; and get the lion and was killed by Crown forces after a military tribunal. surroundings of the River Slaney. Activities for kids include: Trials Here, the house and yard have been restored and span a trained and well-armed Crown Forces. along songs, a crazy maze, giant buzz off, go-karts, milking Enniscorthy also has a pitch and putt course located in chance to experience “The Legend of Loftus Hall”. of Tuan, Activity Scramble Archery (Seasonal), Adventure Play- 250- year period embracing both the historical and rural cow and much more! walking distance from the Riverside. ground aspects of the area www.loftushall.ie www.inhp.com www.knightsandrebels.ie www.kiaoraminifarm.ie Tintern Abbey Dunbrody Famine Ship ….New Ross The Promenade Walk John F. Kennedy Park & Arboretum ….New Ross Greyhound Racing Stadium ...Enniscorthy Lochmahon… Adamstown, Enniscorthy Tintern Abbey was founded c. 1200 and was home to the Explore the spectacular Dunbrody Famine Ship above and Lochmahon has two fl y lakes, the specimen lake has Enjoy a 5km walk down the promenade where you will fi nd Dedicated to the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Every Monday & Thursday night from 8pm, enjoy greyhound Cistercian monks for centuries. After the dissolution of the below deck, step back in time as costumed performers set Browns and Rainbows averaging 4-5 Lbs. The 2nd Fly lake religious houses the Abbey came into the possession of the lots of wildlife and fauna, there are benches along the way President of the United States from 1960 to 1963, the racing in Enniscorthy Greyhound Stadium. the scene for a journey that transformed the lives of is well stocked with 1-2 Lbs Rainbows. The bait fi shing Colclough family. Knights, monks and scoundrels, law makers, to enjoy the River Slaney or green areas for a family picnic. Arboretum is a plant collection of international standing. Great Night for the whole family. law breakers and custodians, Tintern Abbey had them all and this thousands and be immersed in the sights and sounds of It covers 252 hectares (623 acres). It contains 4,500 types lake is well stocked with Rainbow Trout, ideal for families, historic place is well worth a visit. Enjoy a tour of the Abbey and a real life famine ship. of trees and shrubs from all temperate regions of the world, Discounts available at reception. children, beginner and groups Tackle shop, rod hire, large the beautiful Colclough gardens or explore the woodland trails. planted in botanical sequence. Play-ground and picnic area selection of fl ie; everything for the trout angler. Fly casting instruction available on request. see www.heritageireland.ie for more www.dunbrody.com with ponds and woodland walks. www.heritageireland.ie Enniscorthy Castle & Vinegar Hill Hook Lighthouse …Hook Head Wexfords Beaches Pick your own Strawberries! Wexford Trails Other attractions Overlooking the town of Enniscorthy. Follow in the footsteps of Anglo- Berry Farm Clonroche Enniscorthy Norman Knights, Gaelic Irish Kings and Eliazbethan Adventurers as you within an hour’s drive from the Hotel... uncover the story of the Castle. Visit Vinegar hill where the historic battle took The Visitor Centre at Hook Lighthouse is at the tip of the Wexford is located beside the sea, with numerous beaches such as Garden Trail place and take in the panoramic view of Enniscorthy and beyond.