Coliemore House B&B Castlebridge Wexford | Out and About

Local Amenities and Attractions

Golf
With six championship courses, County Wexford is a golfers paradise.
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The wonderful natural terrain around our coastline provides superb link and parkland courses.

Wexford Golf Club,

Rosslare Golf Club and

St. Helen's Bay Golf Club are only a few minutes drive from Coliemore House.

Angling
It is easy to reach the rich fishing grounds around Wexford from Coliemore House, with over 200 km of coastline, it is
one of our greatest resources.
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Shore angling is also a very popular pastime among the locals who can direct you the best locations.
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Wexford County possesses an abundance of clean rivers

and lakes to cater for the coarse and game angler; the Rivers Barrow and Slaney are the two largest rivers.

Wexford Wildlife Reserve
Wexford is widely known as the best county in Ireland for bird watching. This is a well-equipped visitor centre and has many exhibitions and an informative audio visual show.
The park is sign-posted just outside Wexford town on the R741 between Ferrybank and Castlebridge.

Wexford Racecourse One of the best kept secrets of Irish racing! Wexford is an undulating, right handed course of one mile, 2 furlongs for chases, hurdles and flat races. Meetings (Day and Evening) are held regularly throughout the year.	.Visit Website

Curracloe Beach Coliemore House is situated within 5 minutes drive of Curracloe Beach, where you can enjoy miles of safe, sandy beach (E.U. Blue Flag Awarded). Enjoying a dry climate with hours of glorious sunshine, Curracloe's amenities will provide the activity and enjoyment or simple relaxation you seek.
Curracloe also offers something for every fisherman from beach fishing to sea angling.


Wexford Festival Opera Staged in The Theatre Royal, Wexford, annually in October, it draws audiences and artists from all over the world. 2002 celebrates the 51st anniversary of this festival.	.Visit Website

Johnstown Castle
The harmony between great Victorian revival castles and their surrounding ornamental grounds is rarely seen to such perfection as at Johnstown Castle.
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The mature woodlands and lakes of this demesne provide the perfect setting for this turreted, battlemented and
machicolated castle of gleaming silver-grey ashlar, built

between 1810 and 1855 and incorporating part of a more ancient castle.

Hook Lighthouse
Visit one of the Oldest Operational Lighthouses in the World. Hook Head, wild and elemental, tranquil and serene, in its serenity hides the treachery which be waits unsuspecting mariners.
Little wonder that William Marshall earl of Pembrokeshire undertook the building of the lighthouse in the early 13th century as a navigational aid to guide his ships into Waterford Harbour.

Irish National Heritage Park
The Irish National Heritage Park depicts many settlements in Ireland from 7000 BC to the arrival of the Norman's in the 12th century. Stroll through the park with it's homesteads, places of ritual, burial modes with long forgotten remains. Your sense's come alive with sights and sounds stretching back 900 years.


National 1798 Centre The National 1798 visitor centre traces the Rebellion of 1798 in County Wexford, together with events as they happened in Europe, United States and Australia. The Revolution experience is dramatic audio visual display using a curved screen to simulate the battle of Vinegar Hill and is the highlight of the show.	.Visit Website

Dunbrody Famine Ship
The original Dunbrody was a three-masted barque built in Quebec, Canada, for the Graves family of New Ross, Co. Wexford in 1845.
She carried many emigrants to the new world from 1845-1870.

The Dunbrody Project involved the construction of a full scale sea-going replica. The Dunbrody was finished in early 2001 and is now opened to visitors at the quayside in New Ross.


The John F. Kennedy Arboretum The John F. Kennedy Arboretum, on 252 hectares contains over 4,500 types of trees and shrubs, 200 forest plots, rhododendrons, dwarf conifers, lake, viewing point, tea room and visitor centre with an audio-visual show.