Wexford takes its name from Loch Garman, though its English name comes from the Norse Veisafjörður, ‘inlet of the mudflats’ — a county first settled by Viking traders and, four centuries later, by Norman knights.
Contae Loch Garman · The Model County · Leinster
Wexford takes its name from Loch Garman, though its English name comes from the Norse Veisafjörður, ‘inlet of the mudflats’ — a county first settled by Viking traders and, four centuries later, by Norman knights.
This is Bannow Bay, where the first Norman ships landed in 1169 and changed the course of Irish history — and Vinegar Hill, where the rebels of 1798 made their last stand above the town of Enniscorthy.
