What is County Wexford like?

Question

I am American,and most of my ancestors are from there.

Answer 1

my mums family are all from county wexford, I havent been but she says its the most beautiful place in the world!

Answer 2

wexford its a dump! nothing there only strawberries and knackers(Gypsy) BELIEVE ME

Answer 3

Its a truly beautiful place and my second favourite place in Eire, the first is County Galway.

Answer 4

It's beautiful!!!!!(it's home)

Answer 5

Yes it a beautiful part of Ireland you  would love it there,

County Wexford is a county on Irelands south-east coast about 27  wide at it's widest point and fifty miles long. Wexford is about sixty miles across the sea from Wales.

Megalithic structures left by Irish thousands of years before include sixteen tombs, ten portal tombs known as Dolmens, five passage tombs and one court tomb.

Some 4,500 years ago the first metal using people settled in this part of Ireland. They brought the stone, box like structures tapering to one end, known as wedge tombs. They also had cist burials in stone lined pits, tumulaus burials and barrows.

About 1500 years ago the warriors known as Celts settled here, building strongly defended settlements in the hills and on promontories over looking the sea.

Waterford has identified two hill forts and over twenty promontory forts. More common are the iron age enforced farmsteads known as raths, fairy forts or lios. These were normally circular enclosures about forty feet in diameter and each small fort able to support about 100 people.

History:

Wexford located in south-east Ireland south of Dublin and about 60 miles across the sea from Wales. From archeological excavations we know that prehistoric man arrived at Wexford at the end of the last ice age about 7000 BC.

These early peoples are classified as Mesolithic (Old Stone Age before 6500 BC), later Neolithic (New Stone Age 6500 to 2500 BC). These ancient peoples survived by hunting, gathering and fishing.

NOTE: Wexford was in that part of Ireland first free of Ice Age glaciers.

At a debatable period of time BC, peoples came as invaders from Gaul to settle  England, Scotland, Wales and then Ireland. These people who came before BC, though from many tribes in Europe, have been labeled by history as Celts.

The Celts came relatively late to Wexford, named Ui Cheannselaig by the Celts.  

Archeological evidence by carbon dating methods place their coming at 350 BC. The earliest known map of Wexford was drawn by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, Egypt about 2 AD, showed a village where City Wexford stands.

The Celts absorbed the earlier cultures and today The Irish embrace the Celt  culture more so than they do any other single invader.

The Romans came to England in 54 BC and from there managed to conquer the area now known as England. They tried to conquer Scotland, but the wild men of Scotland were too hot to handle.

The Romans, though they lost several legions killed, had better luck conquering Wales and except for the Ordovicians and Silurians managed to do so. Counties of South Wales, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Breconshire were never part of the Roman Empire.

Before Rome could get a foothold in Ireland, the brethren Welsh with help from Picts and Irish attacked the Romans from all sides and inflicted horrific losses on their military infrastructure. Roman soldiers left England in 410 AD. Roman coins are found many places Those caches were more probably left by Viking traders rather then being indicative of any prolonged Roman occupation.

For four centuries between 400 and 800 AD the Celtic culture in Ireland thrived and most of the fighting seems to have been between Provincial Kings of Ulster, Meath, Leinster, Connaught and Munster, home of Wexford, and between petty kings and princes who just wanted more land, and with native Fir Bolg tribes.

Hope this gives you some idea of it!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

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