Most popular landmarks and natural wonders in Wexford
#1 The Raven Nature Reserve is a Ramsar site and national nature reserve of approximately 1,455.5 acres (5.890 km2) located in County Wexford, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service.
Ferns Castle (Irish Caisleán Fearna) is a ruined 13th century castle in the town of Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland.
#3 Ballyteigue Burrow is a series of coastal habitats of international importance, and national nature reserve of approximately 561 acres (2.27 km2) in County Wexford, Ireland. It is also a Special Area of Conservation.
#4 Tara Hill (Irish: Torrchoill) is an isolated hill and associated village near the Irish Sea coast in north County Wexford, Ireland. Though only 253 metres (830 feet) high, it dominates the landscape of northeast Wexford. It overlooks the Wexford coast line, from Courtown harbour to Castletown.
#5 Black Rock Mountain (Irish: An Charraig Dhubh Thuaidh) is a mountain in Ireland. It is in the Blackstairs Mountains, on the Carlow-Wexford border. The Blackstairs are divided into two massifs, to the north Mount Leinster and to the south Blackstairs Mountain. Black Rock is the terminal peak of the eastern shoulder of Mount Leinster.
#6 Blackstairs Mountain (Irish: An Staighre Dubh) is the second-highest mountain in the Blackstairs Mountains of southern Leinster in the Republic of Ireland. The mountain stretches from Rathgeran to Gowlin at Cathaoirs Den. The mountain is an assembly site for the feast of Lughnasa, known here as mountain Sunday.
#7 The John F. Kennedy Arboretum, on the Hook Head peninsula near New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, is a park under public administration (owned by the Office of Public Works, managed by the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland), and a research collection of more than 5,000 varieties of tree and shrub. It is the largest such collection, by far, in Ireland.
Croghan Mountain, also known as Croghan Kinsella or Croghan Kinshelagh (Irish: Cruachán Uí Chinnsealaigh, meaning 'little stack of the Kinsella family') at 606 metres (1,988 ft), is the 211th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 258th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale. Croghan is situated at the far southeastern end of the Wicklow Mountains on the County Wicklow and Wexford border, in Ireland.
#9 Slieveboy (Irish: Sliabh Buí) is a mountain located in north County Wexford, Ireland.
#10 Passage Tower is a historic ruin located in County Wexford. It is categorized as historic ruins.